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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Hehheh.Not quite on-stage, but rather in the sound desk.
For my Drama AS practical exam, I decided to do something different and go into the Sound teching department. After a week of perfect run-throughs of the performances came the actual public performances, which were being recorded to send to the [nazi] examiners AQA for marking. It went wrong from the very beginning:
The lighting systems failed - meaning a lot of the plays were completely blacked-out. There is a link-up between the soundbox and the stage, so us poor sods in this 2 metre x 2 metre box actually know where our cues are. It failed. Me, and my good friend Brian who was doing lighting for the performances started going ballistic as the plays started too early.
What they didn't tell us is that the soundbox wasn't soundproof due to a small hole in the front. Cue loud shouting of "WHAT'S LISA DOING ON-STAGE?!" A darth Vader style "NOOOOOOOOO" and finally...Loudest of all: "GET OFF THE FUCKING STAGE".
All of which were heard by 250 parents, children and OAPS. Not only this, but that tape was sent to the examiners, who could also hear it.
Still got a B for it though. Woo!
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