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.
Tell us your stories of life on the stage.
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chthonic, Fri 2 Dec 2005, 11:02)
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Homemade vibratorNow this one was me unfortunately. For my Drama GCSE Me and a mixed group of others decided to do a play where one of the scenes involved a woman getting a vibrator for christmas and not having a clue what it was (I forget the title). No prizes for guessing who played that woman.
One of the blokes decided to make a prop vibrator for the big day. Cue me opening the parcel to come face to face with a toilet roll with a big red christmas tree decoration wedged in the top. If that wasn't bad enough he'd taken the little motor from a battery powered fan and wedged it in so it started humming in my hand.
I tried not to laugh but it was pretty hard not to considering a whole room full of people were. No wonder I got a D for my GCSE dammit.
(, Sat 3 Dec 2005, 17:32, Reply)
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