Light bulb jokes:

How many stagehands does it take to change a lightbulb? None, that’s an electrician’s job. How many actors does it take to change a light bulb? All of them. One to do it, and the rest to talk about how much better they could have done it. How many actors does it take to change [...]

The Actor’s Vocabulary – more theatre humour

ETERNITY: The time that passes between a dropped cue and the next line. PROP: A hand-carried object small enough to be lost by an actor exactly 30 seconds before it is needed on stage. DIRECTOR: An individual who suffers from the delusion that he/she is responsible for every moment of brilliance cited by the critic [...]

Small Professional Theatre 1.0 Tech Support

Dear Sirs; Last year I upgraded from Community Theatre 5.0 to Small Professional Theatre 1.0 and noticed that the new program began making unexpected changes. It installed something called Microsoft Stage-manager (TM) which it launches whenever rehearsal software is powered up, severely limiting access to munchies, praise, and practical joke applications that operated flawlessly under [...]

More Theatre Humour

An Actor’s Guide to Performance: Hold for all laughs—real, expected, or imagined! If you don’t get one, face front and repeat the line louder. Failing this, laugh at it yourself. Cultivate an attitude of hostility. Tension gets results—on stage and off. A good performance, like concrete, should be molded quickly and then forever set. Your [...]

Some Humour

THE ACTOR’S LESSONS of DESTRUCTION 1. Compromise your principles early and get it over with. 2. Memorize all of the songs from “Cats.” 3. Wear as much spandex as possible to auditions. 4. Wear lots of “comedy and tragedy” accessories. 5. Take your art WAY too seriously. 6. Misquote Shakespeare. 7. If a director doesn’t [...]

An Audio Guy’s Lighting – NOT

I recently attended a Christmas function in a major hotel with a band playing that had been around for a number of years. Now this is one of those shows that plays in the month or so leading up to Christmas, and people and groups buy tickets for a meal and a show. So what [...]

Another Stage Collapses

Again we hear of another stage collapsing and killing someone. This time the event happened in Trieste. The stage was being built for Italian rocker Jovanotti, who was forced to cancel his show when the stage collapsed and kill a 20 year old construction worker. Eight others that were also working on the construction of [...]

As a Fringe Rapidly approachs

Well it is going to get busy in Adelaide again with the 2012 Adelaide Fringe upon us in the next few months. so what does it mean to us theatre technicians? It certainly means more work and less sleep, or does it? I am obviously am one of those techs that is going to be [...]

Lighting Cold Chisel – MAC 101

The recent “Light the Nitro” tour by iconic Australian band “Cold Chisel” has wowed audiences across the country. Part of this wow factor has been because of the lighting that has been designed by one of Australia’s best lighting designers – Francesco Calvi. He has designed the rig in such a way that it will [...]

Techie Christmas Gifts

So looking for that perfect techie gift for Christmas and you are not sure what to get them. Well here are a few suggestions that you can put under the Christmas tree. Gerber These guys make some pretty cool multi-tools. You could not go wrong with one of these. This multi-tool has a variety of [...]