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This is teeeeeeeeeech!
Apr. 30th, 2007 10:15 amWell, another wonderful technical rehearsal out of the way.
For the (luckily) uninitiated the technical rehearsal is not really for the cast, it is for the stage crew, sound & lighting guys. So it tends to be a bit of the ol' "hurry up and wait". You have to be there, focussed and ready to go at any point, but spend most of your time sitting around, watching (or in John Parker's case, having a bit of a snooze!).
Tech rehearsals are always somewhat depressing. It's two days before you start and you see the play at its absolute worst - everything that can go wrong will. You find out which bits of set don't work, which bits of the stage you thought you had, but don't because of bits of set. Someone always loses their temper (Paul this time, rightly protesting about a piece of set design that looks silly, but ended up with the Director saying "who's directing?"![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pennskiBlackAdder-style going through our heads at that point...)
Some people are more constitutionally suited to this game than others. Me, most of the time I'm fairly calm; it's one of the few things in my life that I am able to just let it flow. Although I did get a little irritable with Heidi, our youngest member (14-years old). She's very sweet, very talkative and a little bit scatty. She came back-stage at one point last night to tell me that she was confused and what should she be doing. I explained and then pointed out that she is going to have to pay close attention to what is going on: I'm not going to be able to help her out on the night - I'm going to be a bit busy!
But what does wind me up is having to listen to the usual suspects moaning about all the waiting around and how bad it all is, etc, etc. You want to shake them and point out that this is a tech rehearsal, they are always a nightmare! At least it's not like Viva Mexico, where we didn't finish the tech until about midnight!
Dress Rehearsal tonight!
For the (luckily) uninitiated the technical rehearsal is not really for the cast, it is for the stage crew, sound & lighting guys. So it tends to be a bit of the ol' "hurry up and wait". You have to be there, focussed and ready to go at any point, but spend most of your time sitting around, watching (or in John Parker's case, having a bit of a snooze!).
Tech rehearsals are always somewhat depressing. It's two days before you start and you see the play at its absolute worst - everything that can go wrong will. You find out which bits of set don't work, which bits of the stage you thought you had, but don't because of bits of set. Someone always loses their temper (Paul this time, rightly protesting about a piece of set design that looks silly, but ended up with the Director saying "who's directing?"
pennskiBlackAdder-style going through our heads at that point...)Some people are more constitutionally suited to this game than others. Me, most of the time I'm fairly calm; it's one of the few things in my life that I am able to just let it flow. Although I did get a little irritable with Heidi, our youngest member (14-years old). She's very sweet, very talkative and a little bit scatty. She came back-stage at one point last night to tell me that she was confused and what should she be doing. I explained and then pointed out that she is going to have to pay close attention to what is going on: I'm not going to be able to help her out on the night - I'm going to be a bit busy!
But what does wind me up is having to listen to the usual suspects moaning about all the waiting around and how bad it all is, etc, etc. You want to shake them and point out that this is a tech rehearsal, they are always a nightmare! At least it's not like Viva Mexico, where we didn't finish the tech until about midnight!
Dress Rehearsal tonight!
