Dec
17
When playing Hamlet, it must be such an advantage, having big hair. In fact, thinking through the Hamlets I’ve seen, only one didn’t have big hair, and I can’t help but feel that he fell back on obsessive cigarette smoking to make up for its absence. Big hair, though, is great. You can tug it, …
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Dec
08
I’m not musicals woman. Which is ironic, considering I’m in the process of lighting one. One with a huge set, a lot of dance number, and no room to put any booms in, if anyone’s concerned. Also, I realise, thinking about it out loud, no room to fly a bar in any lower than about …
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Nov
22
“Yo yo, bitches!” The young man who uttered this phrase is from Teddington, not necessarily your most bitchin’ hood in Middlesex, yo. He’d been in the lighting department for a week and a half, and for the first week and a half he was reasonably sedate. Then suddenly, out of no where, it seemed that …
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Oct
10
“I need to know how much 15 Amp cable and DMX you have,” I said. The man looked briefly tortured. “Well,” he replied at last, “One mustn’t be too ambitious about these things.” As a lighting designer, there are certain things you take for granted. 15 amp cable – the round pinned stuff you see …
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Sep
07
I very rarely blog about productions I’ve worked on. I mean, I blog about the working, because it ranges from the exhausting to the occasionally comical, but you may have noticed, dear reader, that I very rarely mention the job itself by name, unless I think it’s truly stonking. I also rarely invite people to …
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Jul
13
So here’s a question to mull over a good word count… what exactly is drama? Kinda a broad question, and not really one I expect to be able to answer in any shape or form. But hey, when has that inhibited things…? The question was raised by the follow spot operators on the latest show …
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Jun
26
To do in a control box between cues: 1. Write novels. 2. Send very long emails to far-flung friends (when the theatre’s internal internet system is functioning, grumble grumble….) 3. Learn Chinese. 4. Attempt to recover your limited knowledge of Physics through A-Level practice questions. Fail at the same. Curse and seethe. 5. Play suduko …
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Jun
17
Month from hell! So many shows! Bed soon! Bed! Bed bed bed bed… Bed! Oh god please bed!
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Jun
09
A few days ago I blogged about a play I was calling Four Men in a Church. By popular request, this production has now been re-named Simon and the Drum. To explain… The drum is the name for the giant spinning elevator in the centre of the stage. It’s a beautiful bit of mechanics, genuinely …
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Jun
06
As anyone who regularly follows this blog will know, I spend a lot of my time sat in darkened theatres waiting for stuff to happen, and that is precisely where you find me know. At this exact point in time I am in tech for a production that I think we will call Four Men …
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