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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Casual Acting CampOne summer my aunt enrolled me in several day camp type things for about a week. One of them was a sort of acting camp of nebulous goal.
The best part was learning how to do "Stage violence"!
For that exercise I played the part of a psychotic mother who attacks a babysitter: I slapped my partner, dragged her across the floor, slammed her head into the wall and then the floor. Fun!
Unfortunately I never got the chance to use these skills during my performance art classes.
(, Mon 5 Dec 2005, 3:20, Reply)
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