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Have any of you out there had issues with techies hating actors or actors hating techies? I recentally worked a show where one of the actors had no respect for any of the techies, he ignored any warnings we gave and even gave us hell after the director talked to him. It wasn't like we were being bossy, we were trying to keep him from going anywhere where he could get hurt, IE the catwalks. Have any of you stuggled with this from either end? is so how do you handle it?

There's a tiny bit of descrimination, I have to say. Techies always feel under appreciated and actors just don't get how much work it is because the stage always just kind of appears in a few days.

To kind of bridge the gap between techies and actors at my school, some of the techs/actors wrote a song spawned from an argument between the student tech director (haha STD) and the lead in the current play. It's called "This Set Was Made for You and Me" to the tune of the John Denver song you all know. I totally forget the words, but it was great and everytime a techie or an actor made a derrogatory comment towards the other, we'd just start singing the song. Everybody would join in and it was happy fun time. Yay for being a peacenik.

I usually hate techies. They think they're the most important people and that the production would stop if they weren't doing anything. Late in production, techies can be replaced, actors can't.

Actors can be replaced. stare That's why God created understudies.

but anyways, sorry, I don't wanna start anything.


sweatdrop there's always going to be discrimination between actors and techies.

At my school's productions, there are some rivalries between actors and techies. Actors always have their noses in the air and techies always think they know what they're doing.

I've had my share of both worlds. In my very first production (which was only a few months ago) of Beauty and the Beast, I was a techie. One of my guy friends (whom I met through stage crew for that production) was a techie too, BUT he was an actor in the musical as well. He worked build crew, building and assembling the sets and even designed and built the magic Chip Tea Cart. He managed to juggle both jobs. THe only condition was that he couldn't be on run crew, but that wasn't a big deal.

He called himself a tector. razz hehe. Although he tells me he prefers to be a techie and I tell him I wanted to act (I auditioned for BATB but didn't get in).

Around the time hell week and the show started, I developed a huge crush on him. Could it work out? A techie and an actor?

To make a long story short, on closing night after the Belle scene, I told him how I felt about him... then a week after, he asked me to be his girlfriend. blaugh We're still happily together.

Now, this summer, I'm acting/singing/dancing in a small theatre's production of Oklahoma! (my first show ever blaugh ) and my boyfriend is the Sound Guy. So it's like we switched places. mrgreen I still love him very much. It's the best of 2 worlds.

^_^ Aww. That's so cute!

I think that everyone one can agree to disagree, we had this discussion in an advanced acting class/stagecraft. and i am an actor, but i know alot about the theatre because i follow the tekkies around pushing random buttons and then getting yelled at... it's fun (>^^<) anyway, theatre wouldn't exist, we would have to go back to greek teatre*shudder* and even then tekkies were the only ones there to help. but in the end the tekkies are working to the actors advantage so for all thos snubby actors out there... just think of the tekkies as your very expensive megaphone...

"You can't be on stage and run the spot at the same time"

Of course theatre needs both actors and techies, that's just a fact of life. My firm rule is to respect those who respect me. Thus, I tend to not like chorus kids (who tend to populate the cast of school musicals), who tend to treat techies like personal slaves, or dirt.

Recently my school did Seussical. The actors mostly had their noses stuck up very high in the air. They would always leave their trash on the floor of the auditorium for stage crew to pick up. Everyday us actors/actresses had to stay late and clean and most of the cast left. Mind you, this was a cast of 85 people, 20 people in pit and 30 people in stage crew. It was fairly annoying with 5/85 people in cast would stay to help clean.
I used to stay after and help Crew clean because I felt horrible making them have to stay and clean. They all began telling me that I belonged mroe on crew then cast.....except I wouldn't be able to perform in crew. But it was annoying that the cast thought crew was their slaves and I always want to kick them for it.