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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Streetcar Named DesireI was once down to play Mitch in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. The most attractive girl in the school was down to play Blanche, Mitch's dubious love-interest. There was one scene where I had to basically fondle her tits, and say 'just give me a slap if I get out of bounds'.
For some reason, unexplainable to this day, I kept getting the scene wrong in rehearsals so we had to do it over and over again. I don't think she minded that much though, as on one memorable occassion she turned round and, briefly dropping out of character, said quite loudly, "that was really shit - just grope me!".
I didn't get it any righter, as we still had to re-do the scene several times...But I never got the slap.
Happy times.
(, Sat 3 Dec 2005, 10:48, Reply)
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