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There's this one techie at my school and he drives me nuts. Before one of our shows our director told the actors to set their props and my friend set her laundry basket and finger symbols for where she enters at the top of the show.

Well, sometime between that and curtain this techie moved her cymbals back to the prop table. She said when she got to her basket and realized they weren't in there, she thought she'd have to make the dinging noise herself.

Fortunetly she saw them on the prop table and garbbed them before she went on stage.

Other than that, he's done a lot of other stupid stuff and a lot of people don't like him xo;

I have a great respect for techies

There's no way I could do what they do

Everyone in theater is just as important

If it were just the lead actors and no one else, it would suck

Everyone is needed to make a show good

OOOOOH, the actor and the techie should be friends
Oh, the actor and the techie should be friends
One that likes to take a bow,
the other likes to tell them how,
but that's no reason why they can't be friends.


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we actually never had any real problems because the actors were the techies and the techies were the actors. The only thing was our tech director asking people ominously if they were trying out for the next show or running sound, but it was all in good fun.

I think the problem is that they both want to be respected and apriciated and most importantly enabled to do what they are here to do.

The techie is building a set with four doors, 500 light cues, and trying to keep actors from killing themselvs on the equipment, and moving a chord so that some stupid person dosn't trip is the least of their worrys.

The actor is trying to remember lines, perform quick costume changes, keep track of props, so they can't understand why someone can't just fix a latch on one of the doors so that it will close properly and not make them look like an idiot.

so bottom line...
try to understand one another.
heart heart I love you both. heart heart

Generally, our school district is good for actor-techie relations.

In middle school, techies always got the food first. And my mom and I designed the sets all three years I was there.

And in high school, there were so few of us on any given day that we all did everything. I teched both competition One-Acts, designing lights on a thirty-year-old light board. (And won an award, thank ye very muchly)

But in senior high, there's not a whole lot of opprotunity for a person to do both. I love lights, but thelovelyLIZ knows the board better, so I'll basically never get a chance with it (mostly because the technology actually isn't older than me for once. In middle school, all we had was breakers to flip for the lights. I am not even joking.)


My mom likes to say: 'Without techies, all us actors would be naked in the dark on an empty stage with nothing to say and no one to tell us how to do it."


But really, the only way to get anywhere in the real theatre world (i.e. making a living without going straight on Broadway [sorry kids, it's not going to happen].) is to be willing and able to do both.

And everyone needs to listen to everybody else. Director says set props. Actors set props. It is not ASM's job to set props. ASM moves props. Heads roll. If a techie tells an actor to do something, it's probably for their own good. But techies need to remember that a good actor will know what they're doing.

That's why I was so angry when obnoxious techie moved my finger cymbals in Metamorphoses. It wasn't his place to do so. Then he had the gall to tell me that I don't know his responsibilities better than him even though I've had five times as much experience backstage.



But generally, I've never had a problem distinctly as an actor with a techie. There are just people that I don't like. It's not discrimination.

And I'll stop before I go on another rant.

I wish so much that I could do tech

But I have no experience, since good theater companies are hard to come by and my middle school had NOTHING

And I love performing too much!

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I appreciate techies a lot. I actually plan to work as a techie once I started doing more shows in school. However, when I was doing Fiddler on the Roof (Junior Edition) some of the techies were very rude. One of the problem techies was very hyper, didn't do his jobs and during rehearsals would scream at us if we were trying to tell him to do his jobs- or, god forbid- doing them for him. We got in trouble because he did everything except what he was supposed to do.

That's the only conflict with a techie as an actor that I ever had.

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