#theatrical lighting

[whatislifebesidesrehearsal]

Board Op: Lighting techs are inherently evil.

Stage Hand: Don’t you do lighting? Does that make you evil?

Board Op: A bit.

[upstagetraveler]

And just like that we close out another amazing run of our Summer Theatre Series student performances of Treasure Island in our Black Box and Mary Poppins on our main stage. #TalentPerformsHere #TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork

[yourmominthe90s]

lighting address whack-a-mole is one of the most interesting ways to figure out what light is supposed to be on

[stagefoot]

I just push my little buttons when they tell me to 🥺

[moonthemagical]

So one of the bulbs in our spotlight burnt out or something...

We had to deal with a hole in the wash the entire rehearsal and on top of that I still had to teach the new light techs all the cues. With one very important light missing.

We're not going to get a specialist in until next Tuesday, and I'm not sure when we'll be able to get a new bulb...

(the lighting system we have is like at least 30 years old, every year one of them breaks. honestly it would cost less longterm to just get new ones...) (but NOOO that would be too expensive!)

[nightmare-followup]

fun fact: in theatrical lighting there is a nut that is rlly hard to work with which is known by lighting people as the “jesus nut” or occasionally even the “fuck nut” cause people shout “jesus!” or “fuck!” when they’re working on it and tend to get injured on it too.

[artronenergy]

enlightenment is such a great dreamy masterpiece of a doctor who episode. like, what if wild blue yonder was a romance.

[jeeaark]

Oh noooooo the broken little star lamp! My heart!

I just want to hold Greyg until the pain goes away!

Greygold made sure Astarion reverse-pickpocketed a bunch of money to the previous lantern holders. Especially if they made them. Gotta support the craft-community~

Anyway, I HOPE THIS MAKES HEARTS FEEL BETTER lakdjlasdjfIfeelbad

[crehador]

mulled it over for a while and ultimately decided i'm really digging this arajin-matakara fight, because like

the whole series has set up arajin as a piece of shit fuckhead (and i LOVE that for him) but this whole lying to matakara about wanting to be a honki people thing... is like the one thing he did not actually do

i get real rambly under the cut but tl;dr the way matakara treats arajin is the way arajin treats mahoro and that is suuuch a juicy parallel to me

throughout the whole series arajin has been not at all subtly trying to get away from these fights

could he have been more direct about that with matakara? sure maybe! but matakara was really ignoring all the signs that arajin is not who he thinks he is

which is such a delicious parallel to how arajin willfully ignores all the signs that mahoro is not into him

like. matakara built this version of arajin up in his head, with all these unreasonable, unrealistic, and honestly unfair? expectations based off some past foolishness from when they were very small children. he's clinging to this version of arajin that only exists in his head and has basically shown zero evidence of existing in real life

(yes arajin shows crumbs of courage but i think the scales are tipped pretty heavily towards his I DO NOT WANT ANY PART OF THIS moments)

this fight between them was like if arajin were to blow up at mahoro like "you've been leading me on this whole time!" when obviously. lol. no she has not

she did initially! just like tiny arajin as a child had those honki people ambitions! his ambitions may have been genuine, while mahoro feigned interest in him with malicious intent, but they're same in the sense that after that initial story beat, they have consistently demonstrated that actually no what happened back then no longer applies (whether because they grew out of it, in arajin's case, or they were faking interest in the first place, in mahoro's case)

but arajin is blinded by what he wants (mahoro) and ignores the reality of mahoro snubbing him at every turn, and matakara does the same, ignoring the reality of arajin really just... being extremely reluctant to have anything at all to do with him

anyway that's the main thing i'm chewing on and loving here, but ALSO i think the story paints this parallel in such an interesting way because like

matakara is just a big sweet ouppy dog of a boy! it's so so so easy to feel sorry for him, to root for him, to think the best of him. which i still do btw, in fact this episode made me like him more than i already did

because matakara is so uwu angelboy perfect, and arajin is such a dickhead, it's easy to instinctively think oh matakara must be completely right to be hurt and arajin must have hurt him. even if that isn't the case! this doesn't make arajin any less of a dickhead, but he's a dickhead mainly for other reasons

the fact that they've been set up as the perfect epitome of the Pure Boy and the Pervy Boy tropes is just such clever framing for this parallel between them, because i imagine a lot of viewers, if told what mataakara is doing to arajin is what arajin is doing to mahoro, would be like omg wtf no my pure angel baby is nothing like that disgusting freak?

except in this case! he literally is!! which is brilliant!!! i think it adds nuance to both matakara's character and arajin's character at the same time, making it so it's not just one of them is Perfect and one of them is Wrong All The Time

what's even better is that this made sense for matakara, like his reaction breaks him out of the Pure Angel mold but doesn't feel out of character. his emotions are already running high with what happened to his brother, plus akutaro is malewife mansplain manipulating him behind the scenes, so of course he feels like he's driven towards this emotional high that leads to this blowup

the groundwork was already laid out, and it wasn't even subtle. it was right on the surface! but this episode really highlighted how matakara's way of treating arajin is so much like arajin's way of treating mahoro and how inevitable it was that things would reach this point

(there are moments, even in this episode, that are in hindsight so clearly setting up this parallel! like arajin trying to talk to mahoro during lunch, mahoro CLEARLY not interested, making viewers think ugh arajin get a clue. then matakara often IMMEDIATELY coming in to try to talk to arajin, when arajin is the one who clearly isn't interested, making viewers think boo arajin be nicer to him! like i think the show deliberately set the audience up to have those emotional reactions, and this is the moment where the rug is pulled out from under us, so to speak, where it becomes even more obvious that... wait... double standard much?)

anyway. personally my only gripe with this episode is i wished they'd done more with aniki than just pseudo-fridge him, and hope they do still do more with him in the coming eps? but kind of understandable if they don't, because it is just a one-cour show after all

the actual blowup between arajin and matakara was just. mawh, chef's kiss. perfect

[inkyucu]

Have some random Theatrical Tragedy sketches

[ltfeeds]

All of those voices ( 2023) Directed by Charlie Lightening

[whatislifebesidesrehearsal]

Stage Tech: [tapping old lightboard buttons] i understand the appeal of mechanical keyboards now

[upstagetraveler]

Got to try out our new ETC Lonestars for our first dance show of the season! Not my lighting design.

[moonshynecybin]

I wasn't on here when it happened but how funny was it when the news came out that Luca went to Honda while Alex had been banned from Yamaha

well first of all i’m pretty sure i remember MARC being the one who basically confirmed the news to the press. and part of me thought he was JOKING

[jhsgifs]

"Can I do that shit?" — WHAT IF | HOBIPALOOZA 2022 © kth1

[septxwber]

Feel like crying and screaming and jumping off very tall somethings