Recent content by macas

Like mackem techie said, we were all very young (I was only 13) and stagecrew had to organise and set up the show by ourselves with no teacher help. Also it doesn't help that we had some very incompetant U6th students in charge of us all. Once they made a hammock out of the stage curtain and...

We were doing a production of Christmas Carol and we forgot to fireproof one of the gobos we had made (out of cardboard) and during the performance it caught fire and fell out of the holder and landed on someone. It was kinda funny because no-one backstage knew what was going on but we could...

We draw out each scene and just list if it apears more than once. We then make a list of scene order and normally the SM and ASMs will have most of the show memorised.

I've never been on stage before and i liked it because you had a sense of pride that the show would not have happened without the crew and it is kind of satisfying but this year on the last night we are going onto stage to bow and I think that maybe it is ok on the final night as it shows that...

lol school theatres are some much fun :P we have only had one run through (with everything in position and no stopping to sort out things) and it didn't go to well. The school is paying about £5000 and I am actually really worried about it because a lot of the stage hands like to sit back stage...

I dont think the stage manager should be building the set at all. At our school we have a general studies class that does the set building and we also get caretakers to do any joining if necessary. The stage manager should be focusing on how the stage will be set up and where lights are...

We hired in some computer intelligent lights for our production of guys and dolls and they are awesome, they have tons of preset go-bos and images and they can show virtually any colour, including UV which is pretty cool. Im dont know the specific details as im more of the stage management side...