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Tech week. We’re all gonna die.
The words of one of my actresses in regards to this week: Hell Week.
Call it what you want, Tech Week, Production Week, Hell Week. I like Hell Week- because it is truly hell. Back in October I experienced it for the first time as a stage manager and it didn’t go so well. I learned lots of lessons and came into this week ready to take on the work everything will go just as planned.
Ya that didn’t happen.
The work has been long, hard, stressful, and slow.
While I would want to freak out about my progress I will not. As much as I want to get mad at myself about the way the week is progressing and blame myself I should not.
I planned and prepared as much as I could to try and have the week go smoothly. But sometimes all the preparation in the world can’t help from certain things to go wrong or certain things to slow you down. It becomes frustrating to try and keep everything under control but to see things get out of hand on stage, off stage, everywhere.
I am very proud of myself in how calm I’ve been taking all of this- during Rocky I was the opposite of calm. This week I’m learning a new lesson: as much as I want to be in control of Hell Week, I am not.
During hell week everything comes together from actors to props to lights. There’s too many cooks running around trying to finish their part of the meal, and while I’ve done a good job managing everyone’s time and keeping things somewhat organized- I can’t make certain things go faster or prevent random acts of god from occurring.
That’s why it’s Hell Week- you think you can keep it under control but you realize you are in hell. However there is one thing I can control that is essential to the show.
Not freak out.
If the stage manager is calm and collected, then cast and crew will also be calm, confident that everything will come together. Right now the cast and crew is looking to me for inspirational leadership. I am lucky to be surrounded by people that know what they are doing, all they need to do now is to come together and if they see me working hard, confident in the end result I know they will pull it together and by theatre magic, have everything ready by Friday.
So if you don’t hear from me til well into next week- that’s because I’m in hell, and somehow enjoying it.
P.S. I hope you can come out and support the blood, sweat, and tears I’ve spent putting up Amadeus- it opens up Friday (after hell week.)
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