Post by Aindel on Feb 15, 2008 15:20:20 GMT -5
Yays! I live! I'm sure some of you may have noticed that I actually went missing for, like, a month and a half. So now I'm back, and eventually I'll manage to slog through the pages upon pages of conversations that I've missed.
Anyone who doesn't care that I've been missing can end their reading here. For anyone who cared, I'll 'splain what I've been doing:
So I was Assistant Production Manager of the second show we did at my university on the mainstages this year. However, this was a type of show we've never done before. It was an unscripted piece of clown work based on 4 weeks of workshopping the actors did with our director, Leah Cherniak (google her, she's pretty damn cool). Having no script meant that the designers had nothing to work off of, so the process went: Set designer designs a set with the loose perameters set up by the director (ie lots of entrances/exits, space to play, interesting, etc). It gets built before rehearsals start. Once rehearsals start, the costume and lighting designers sit through rehearsals to try to get a handle on the characters the actors are developping. In the last three weeks before the show, all the lights are hung and focussed, costumes are designed and built, and we put up a show.
The interesting part of the build in all of this is that normally we have upward of 100 first years to do our bidding. Since this was a new process for everyone, faculty decided that it would be better to only have senior years work on the show. So instead of having a tech team of about 130, we had about 15-20. It was INSANE.
Once we got the show up and running, though, it was an absolute hit. We sold out every performance by the time we got to opening night. The audience just sat and laughed for almost two straight hours (we played with no intermission). There had actually been talk of buying the rights from the university and re-mounting the show downtown.
So you can see where my life went down the drain. We had crew the first day back to school after holidays, and worked straight through to the beginning of February. My calculated hours spent working on this show amount to almost 300. I'm catching up on my schoolwork now (yay for Reading Week!).
Anyone who doesn't care that I've been missing can end their reading here. For anyone who cared, I'll 'splain what I've been doing:
So I was Assistant Production Manager of the second show we did at my university on the mainstages this year. However, this was a type of show we've never done before. It was an unscripted piece of clown work based on 4 weeks of workshopping the actors did with our director, Leah Cherniak (google her, she's pretty damn cool). Having no script meant that the designers had nothing to work off of, so the process went: Set designer designs a set with the loose perameters set up by the director (ie lots of entrances/exits, space to play, interesting, etc). It gets built before rehearsals start. Once rehearsals start, the costume and lighting designers sit through rehearsals to try to get a handle on the characters the actors are developping. In the last three weeks before the show, all the lights are hung and focussed, costumes are designed and built, and we put up a show.
The interesting part of the build in all of this is that normally we have upward of 100 first years to do our bidding. Since this was a new process for everyone, faculty decided that it would be better to only have senior years work on the show. So instead of having a tech team of about 130, we had about 15-20. It was INSANE.
Once we got the show up and running, though, it was an absolute hit. We sold out every performance by the time we got to opening night. The audience just sat and laughed for almost two straight hours (we played with no intermission). There had actually been talk of buying the rights from the university and re-mounting the show downtown.
So you can see where my life went down the drain. We had crew the first day back to school after holidays, and worked straight through to the beginning of February. My calculated hours spent working on this show amount to almost 300. I'm catching up on my schoolwork now (yay for Reading Week!).