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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ImprovisationI'm a vague actor type (im going to do theatre studies at uni next year... mwhaha no work!), and i got roped into doing a drama revue thing in september. i had five mates who wanted to do it as well, so we eagerly set to work making up a fantastic piece of drama to inspire and bedazzle. the revue was is novemember, we had lots of time.
unfortuantly we didnt do anything. at all.
it got to the day of the performance. we still had nothing. we begged the organisers to withdraw us, as we had nothing. they didnt believe us.
so we did the only thing we could do. we put on silly hats and made it up on the night.
and it worked! the audience loved us! it was the euphroia of being drunk but without the vomit.
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