Hell Week….
Not sure how Tech week got the moniker Hell week, but it can be pretty much spot on as a description of what it can be like. There are literally thousands of details that have to do with mounting a show. The obvious ones are lights, costumes, sound, props, set, etc. These are no small task in and of themselves, especially when resources are tight as in the case of a new theatre company like the Mountain Shakespeare Festival.
The less obvious tasks and details involve the building of the shows and that final push to get ready for performance. This “invisible” work happens in living rooms, fields of sage and showers up and down the mountain, and now in Los Angeles and Bakersfield as well, as actors run their lines in what can be a somewhat desperate charge to the finish line.
At least in our modern world actors are now joined by millions on their blue tooth devices as those who walk around “talking to themselves.”
4 comments July 1st, 2008
