On the stageToo shy to ever appear on stage myself, I still hung around theatres like a bad smell when I was younger - lighting and set design were what I was good at.
Backstage we'd attempt to sabotage every production - us lighting geeks would wind up the sound man by putting the remote "pause" button for his reel-to-reel tape machine on his chair, so when he sat down it'd start running, ruining his cues. Actors would do scenes out of order to make our lives hell. It was great and I don't know why I don't still do it.
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chthonic, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 11:02)
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"Blackout"Simple (and not very safe) game I used to play when I was tech-ing at school!
Every now and again, there would be someone on stage who wasn't shy of saying something "diva-esque" like "my spotlight isn't focused correctly" or wouldn't stand on their marker on stage and then loudly complain that "the lighting is shit" because they cant stand on a little gaffer tape 'X' or 'T' on stage!
Anyway, usually in rehearsals, though never on preformance, honest, the tech team had a game we would play. It involved putting said "diva" in a full glare of a spot for about 10 seconds (we would blame a mis-cue'd lighting problem) followed by a complete blackout just as they were about to walk off stage / climb some scenery / jump off somthing / run around!
Cue said actor either walking into somthing or someone, or just stopping whilst trying to work out why they couldn't see a thing!
It was funny at the time!
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eh dad, wheres the stella? Parp + Honk = Wibble!, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 15:35,
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