30/07/08
Tech, no. -
Categories: Hey kids, do you want to lose all faith in your show before you start its run at the festival? Then why not try doing a tech run? You may have all the
confidence in the world about your month at the fringe, but sure enough the four hours you spend trying to make all the lights and sound work
alongside the funny is a guaranteed way to knock you down a peg or five.
Its a common symptom and runs along with the theatre's code of a crap dress rehearsal meaning a great first show. Theatre sayings are an odd thing, and have so far
never worked for me. Not mentioning the Scottish play is easy unless you are in Macbeth in which case its damn near impossible. Not wishing someone
good luck before a show is fine to do, if you want everyone to think you are a cold hearted non-caring shit. OK, those are only two, but I'm sure the others are lies too.
Today's tech gave us problems that were all mistakes from before we made it to the fringe. One of our sound clips wasn't mixed properly and now sounds
toss. According to the massively geeky tech man it was to do with gain, or girth or something beginning with g. To be honest his chat was so dull and nerd-
tastic that it could have been goiter or gorilla. I truly did not want to know. A geek tech is usually a good thing, because you know that those years of solitary
confinement and Star Trek will mean they have a better grasp of a lighting and sound board than anyone that has friends.
All in all though, it wasn't too bad. All the problems can be fixed by Thursday if we are really organised. List of things includes buying a beard, some elastic,
a cake, sorting sound clips and carrying a lifelike silicon stillborn baby to the venue. Quite how a stillborn can look lifelike I'm not sure, but the horror of such
a prop negates the need to think such things.
Other highlight of today - I almost bought a book, but I didn't. I did buy a plastic ninja sword. I think intellectually I made the right decision.
One guest spot to do tomorrow and the soullessness of flyering begins! Roll on the fringe!
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