SAND???!!?!?!!!!!
Mar. 21st, 2013 12:53 pmSand?
SAND???
SAND?????!!!!!
What on earth possessed the Director to think that putting sand on the stage was a good idea?
Ok, maybe if the stage was set up for it and it was about an inch deep it would have been interesting, but scattering a bunch around the stage in clumps is just stupid.
You can’t even see it from the audience!
And it wasn’t even beach sand, it was builders sand. Actors are walking on the stage in bare feet, not to mention sitting, laying and falling on it. It’s tearing up their feet and getting in their costume. It’s also getting all over backstage. It going to be impossible to clean it all up. And it's covering up all the marks on the stage that they were using for their positions. And the ones we were using for placing the set. Finally, and this was the one that made the director finally see reason, it was too loud when being walked on, scraping across the stage, and the mics on the side of the stage was picking up the noise more than the actors voices.
Such a bad Idea.
But what can I expect from someone who though using a live candles, and knocking them over, on a stage made of wood, cloth and cardboard was a good idea. Not to mention using a car seat as a throne. Do you have any idea how heavy car seats are?!
I can understand the appeal of these ideas but that’s why you have to think things through. That’s why you have a stage manager in the first place, To tell you that maybe it’s not such a good idea or just not practical.
If I only had enough time to be there for the whole set up we could have discussed it.
But I can’t be there, I doing a course and I need a lift down there from one of the actors. I have no time.
SAND???
SAND?????!!!!!
What on earth possessed the Director to think that putting sand on the stage was a good idea?
Ok, maybe if the stage was set up for it and it was about an inch deep it would have been interesting, but scattering a bunch around the stage in clumps is just stupid.
You can’t even see it from the audience!
And it wasn’t even beach sand, it was builders sand. Actors are walking on the stage in bare feet, not to mention sitting, laying and falling on it. It’s tearing up their feet and getting in their costume. It’s also getting all over backstage. It going to be impossible to clean it all up. And it's covering up all the marks on the stage that they were using for their positions. And the ones we were using for placing the set. Finally, and this was the one that made the director finally see reason, it was too loud when being walked on, scraping across the stage, and the mics on the side of the stage was picking up the noise more than the actors voices.
Such a bad Idea.
But what can I expect from someone who though using a live candles, and knocking them over, on a stage made of wood, cloth and cardboard was a good idea. Not to mention using a car seat as a throne. Do you have any idea how heavy car seats are?!
I can understand the appeal of these ideas but that’s why you have to think things through. That’s why you have a stage manager in the first place, To tell you that maybe it’s not such a good idea or just not practical.
If I only had enough time to be there for the whole set up we could have discussed it.
But I can’t be there, I doing a course and I need a lift down there from one of the actors. I have no time.