*grins* Tech /week/ ? LUXURY. We're lucky to get a tech /weekend/ - and by weekend, I mean we get access to the
theatre on Saturday noon and we're supposed to be ready for a
cue-to-cue by
Sunday afternoon.
Why, I remember one tech weekend not too long ago where I showed up as a volunteer carpenter, just to
pitch in for a few hours, and discovered that the show's
master carpenter had bailed.. and thus nobody had any construction plans, nobody had bought any wood, nobody had done ANYTHING with regards to making the set a reality. In fact, the TD and Director will still trying to sort out what they wanted things to look like. Oh. And they had almost no budget left.
That was... fun. It worked - by
Sunday afternoon, they had a full set, including a brandnew bed, a hospital operating gurney, full sets of walls, including some cutaways, doors and windows and moving walls.. but it was a lot of hours at no notice.
Of course, the show then proceeded to flop, but that wasn't the fault of my set.
-OG