#Technical Theater

[stagefoot]

[tortonin]

tim would be such a good stage manager

[woodscreature]

Caught.

[upstagetraveler]

Round 2 of our Shrek the Musical pics! Not my designs or pics. @mtishows-blog

[needlesandnilbogs]

A short snippet from a better world

(Alternatively, a double drabble from the murderbot high school au still living in my brain despite me being a college student now)

"So the thing is, we don't actually have follow spots for this--" "We have follow spots, we just don't have Iris." Perihelion interrupts, and Mensah sighs. "Let Rin talk. I asked it for its opinion, not yours." "We don't have follow spots because we don't have an operator while I'm board op. So I'm imitating Broadway conventions for musicals using what I have. We have two basic modes of lights: full, and what I'm terming 'singing' to imply the front, back, and side lights are dimmed and we'll be using the LEDs controlled from the board, at full intensity and some shutter, as down-spots on specific areas. It's not perfect, but if Iris is really out all week this is the best it's going to get." Mensah nods, smiling at Rin to make sure it knows she's happy to hear what's going on. "Alright, is that everything about the set-up that I should know?" "Do you want to know about the color choices for the wash." Its tone is flat, but she knows her sibling. "If you want to tell me, yes, but maybe after this meeting?" It nods. Mensah makes a note, then continues. "Great. Indah? How goes sound?"

[yagoodoobee]

working on a show [ASM] where i am doing a lot of movement on stage while needing to keep my headset in place. thoughts and opinions on this innovation?

[dipper-in-a-trenchcoat]

The Crew - VII

And The Crew watches on. They watch as the world blazes to life and light for the very first time. At last ending it’s gestation and rehearsal and finally showing itself in all its majesty. And The Crew watches on. The beats and cycles begin to make themself know. Not just the story the audience sees, but the little things that hide in the shadows. A movement that happens like the tick of a clock or a pulse. A motion repeated night after night. And The Crew watches on. The story ends and they reset the world for its birth once more, like a phoenix from the ashes. And The Crew watches on. The story draws them in, rushing along with a incessant pulse. But always with the certainty that it will end the same. It can only ever end the same. After all, it is their job to make certain it does. And The Crew watches on. After so many births and deaths and rebirths, the world dies its last. And they bear witness to the final ending. And the crew watches on. They, who bore witness to the tale again and again, finally put it to rest. And The Crew watches on. The stage is once more returned to its barren state, awaiting the next world, the next story that will occupy it and give life to it. And The Crew watches on. The cycles repeat themselves over and over. Tales and worlds and births and deaths. All of it ushered through its paces in a rhythm that has been ticking on since stories were first told. And The Crew watches on. And The Crew watches on. And The Crew watches on and on and on.

[iisadvs]

worked as the audio two and ASM at my colleges Sweeney Todd

[owenthetokencishet]

You may be autistic but are you 'kitbashing a tiny ETC source 4 parabolic Leko light out of parts left over from Warhammer model kits' autistic?

[abstractpenny]

i love my vent posts about theatre from last year starting to pop up again cuz everyone's doing shows

[whatislifebesidesrehearsal]

The director demanded that we move all of our set, which we share with another show, back to the rehearsal room after our dress rehearsal so they could use it for thirty minutes to go over tech notes, forcing the tech team for the show we share with to come in early on a Saturday to move it back, as we had to leave on the dot when notes finished.

DSM, mid-moving a desk: Do you have anything loud? Food-wise?

ASM: Why?

DSM: We’re gonna eat really loudly in rehearsal and apologise to him but say it’s because we didn’t get a dinner break because he forced us to move the set.

ASM: Passive-aggressive, I like it.

* half an hour later *

The ASM returns with a handful of incredibly loud and crunchy breakfast bars.

[stagefoot]

>Do lighting for 5.5 hours straight

>Walk outside

>”Oh the moon is so pretty!”

>”Oh look a gobo in the wild!”

>I’m broken 😔

[midsummernightsscheme]

we just lost power in my neighborhood. now no one's laughing at my three flashlights on my belt loops. i run this city bitches. people are begging for my help. i'm on top of the world.

[yourlocalzombie]

Gonna recreate a famous RTGame stream (I'm watching paint dry in technical theater)

[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

[needlesandnilbogs]

when i think of your writing i always think of your murderbot HSAU fic with all the theater kids in the booth running a rehearsal. it's so fun and captures the fun of high school tech theater so well. makes me nostalgic <3 and i also think you did such a good job of translating the tmbd character dynamics to a setting that feels like it shouldn't work with them but somehow works perfectly. like mensah IS a stage manager at heart and i think you nailed her

(ask game is somewhere but I’m too lazy to find it: tell me what you think about/remember most about my fic) (also I reblogged the ask game then totally didn’t have brains for talking about fic for like a day and a half lol but it’s fine and ANYWAYS)

Thank you! I’m really proud of high school au, it seems to be perpetually unfinished because I’m a college student now and it turns out I don’t need the wish fulfillment it kinda was, but one day I’ll finish the unfinished stories and share them for sure. Nostalgia is a good word for it lol

also I hope you know that I saved screenshots of several really nice comments you left on various hsau fics because you get it in the same way I do <3 theater kids uniting against the world

(Also also I hesitated but I’m pinging @clustxr to finally acknowledge them for their massive amount of inspiration and the stories I picked up from them because until college I didn’t really get to do the design part of lighting design, just board op, so instead I asked them a lot (and another friend I’ve lost contact with) and they gave me the technical terms to use)