SM Classes 7 and 8

Yesterday we were only in in the afternoon to have a talk with John Duncan about touring. It was good to hear his perspective as someone who has spent years touring especially as he has done both opera and ballet and larger scale productions which is what im more interested in. Like Jarvis I wish that I had asked about the stresses touring puts on your personal life and how you deal with that as this is what would worry me the most about touring. It was also fun to hear about all the theatre going wrong moments and how he dealt with them as  probably what worries me the most about being stage manager is making the wrong decision and someone getting hurt so it was good to find out how to deal with this.

After that we had a quick refresher on cues and calls which I think im pretty comfortable with but its always good to be sure that you are doing it right and not in a way that no one but you can understand.

Today was the Lx rig, focus, plot and sound plot for both shows. Its been good to have Jonny and Barry here for the day as it has just been the 4 of us for the past week and a half and its been nice to have other people to talk to and work with for a bit. Being DSM for the plot was a new experience for me and although I really enjoyed it it was sometimes quite difficult to keep up especially the beginning lightning sequence as thats where most of the cues went and for me thats the most confusing bit but I think that I managed to do an ok job and got all the information down that I needed to.

I am defiantly starting to feel confident about Sweet Sorrow as I think that these classes are proving to me that I do know what im doing and that I can do it so thats really good.