In an effort to avoid my theatre related work, and fulfill your request that people ask you about theatre, tell me a cool fact or something you like about theatre?
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This is slightly cheesy, but honestly? One of the things I like about about theatre is the collaboration and the people. Like, yeah, many many things are collaborative, and I'm not saying Only Theatre Is, but like. I have now held a few non-theatre jobs, and I have not found another place that had the same amount of organization to make that collaboration like, *work*. Like, with the stuff I do with IATSE (tech theatre union)? You show up, you know your job, everyone knows their job, and the people in charge know what needs to happen and how to do that. Everyone is having fun. My first calls, at least three separate people recognized I was new, and made sure to check in on me, answer questions, and make sure I wasn't totally out of my depth.
I'm too close to quitting my latest job to get into how wild that place was, but a few summers ago, I worked in an escape room. And when I was learning how to reset the rooms, I started making a list. And everyone was amazed! They had never thought of this before! And, shock upon shock, I picked up the room reset faster than anyone they had ever seen! Incredible! (they also paid me a decent sum of money to give them these lists when I left, so like. it's cool). But like? It would never have occurred to me to not make a list! That's like, half of tech theatre, at least!
IDK, I feel like I'm going off the rails. I was talking about my theatre work with a former colleague a week or two ago, and mixed in with how much I love this job, the work, the people, was just this all-consuming rage and grief about how I've seen my industry die these past few years. Work dried up, people had to sign petitions to get entertainment workers included in pandemic relief. And it was infuriating, not only seeing people not take the pandemic seriously, but also knowing that even though I sometimes got off hand comments that basically boiled down to, "Oh I did that in high school, what made you decide to get a real job?" Pretty much every stagehand I know was leagues better at pretty much every non-medical related portion of the job, and could probably do that part well too with like, training.
Anyway, wear masks, get vaxxed, and everyone should take a stage management course and learn how to move a piano.
A more fun fact: Clue the movie is a really excellent modern example of Commedia del Arte, an improvisational Italian street perfomance art from Renaissance times!
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