theater stuff, not very exciting

Ugh. TECH. It is a truth universally acknowledged by theater professionals that no matter how simple the show is or how generally congenial the actors and designers and technicians are, tech is hell. This was a very good tech, in my experience. I still kind of want to stab my eyes out with a rusty spork. Didn't help that I slept really poorly (and briefly) last night -- hard to keep your steam up on hour eleven of running around backstage like a crazy person on negative sleep.

Also, invariably, for any given show, I will fuck something up embarrassingly during tech. This is kind of a given for anyone, really -- the whole POINT of going through this is to work out all of the technical kinks of a production before an audience gets to see it. But that doesn't make it any less humiliating in the moment. And my stage manager (I'm the assistant on this one) snapped at me pretty harshly for it -- which was 100% deserved, I am not making any excuses for myself here, and he did it over headset (so, just to me) rather than calling me on it in front of anyone else, so he was absolutely handling it properly. But it stung anyway. I hate feeling unprofessional like this. Ah, well, at least I can suck it up and learn from my mistakes.

Hey, at least our director shortened rehearsal for tomorrow. Instead of 14-odd hours at the theater, I'm looking at more like 11-12 hours. That's almost humane.

Once I'm done self-flagellating over stupid mistakes, remind me to make a post advertising the hell out of this show, because it's genuinely going to be fantastic. Great script, great actors, good team, definitely some of the most fun I've had working on a professional show. It's just that I kind of hate it at the moment, because FUCKING TECH.