DeMizio's Journal

Hell, party of one / Tech Week

My contribution, after 13 hours of moving my gaze from a computer monitor to stage lights...

The Ten Commandments of Tech Week

1. I am the director, your master. You shall have no other masters besides me, and the stage manager. Believe us when we say that we know what the hell we're doing, and we're doing it for your own good. Even when we seem to be doing nothing. We're doing something. Or if we repeat the same action over and over and over again. It's for the sake of art. Really.

2. You shall not take the name of your masters in vain. This goes for taking techies names in vain too. And other actors too. Or at least do it in a whisper.

3. Remember to keep holy this week. Remember also to keep holy the closing night cast party and drink heavily.

4. Honor your father and mother, the director and his minions. Please don't belittle his vision...audibly.

5. You shall not kill. You will be tempted to kill, but do you really want to repaint over the blood? I thought not.

6. You shall not commit adultery. Until the cast party. Until then, keep it in your pants.

7. You shall not steal scenes, costumes, props, time, or anything from anyone. Someone was up until 4am the night before hot gluing "it" together. Please leave "it" where you found "it". And while we're talking about "it," can you please try not to light "it" on fire? Thanks.

8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. If you screwed up your line or your cue, admit it and move on. Unless it's the director's vision, in which case, lie like a used car salesman and blame it on him.

9. You shall not covet your neighbor's costume. You all look silly equally. You're actors for Chrissakes.

10 . You shall not covet any prop that belongs to your neighbor. He's probably going to break it, or trip over it anyway.

Yeah, so these are meant in good fun, and with no blasphemey at all.

Tech week goes well. We wrote about 70 light cues today. Probably another fifty need to be done by Thursday.

We're getting there.

Posted by Matthew at November 10, 2003 02:21 AM