I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner

I'm Charlie and I do theater lighting! (main blog: @a-dux)

[catwalkghost]

REMINDER FOR LIGHT DESIGNERS TO MAKE SURE THERE ARE FLASHING LIGHTS WARNINGS.

If you include flashing lights in your designs, please remember to inform someone who can ensure that there is a notification to the audience before the show starts! Your director might be distracted thinking about other stuff and not think to include that warning, so take the task upon yourself.

[catwalkghost]

My first time doing light design was for a production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and it was such a stressful experience I thought I'd never do light design again (I have done it multiple times now, including once professionally). Furthermore I couldn't tell if I loved or hated the script at the time yet ros and guil ended up shaping my views on theater and subsequently art as a whole. It's one of the shows I'd like to design for most, specifically because I'd love to see how I'd interpret stuff now that I've had more experience. Anyways, wild show to do when you're 15 and have never touched a light board before.

[athena14044]

Another Hamlet costume design (Claudius) for my theatre class except this time I've presented my project and I can tell you it went very well

[catwalkghost]

Life updates since I don't use this blog a lot/at least not currently!!

- I've been loving being a math major!! I'm part way through year 2! Currently I'm interested in number theory, especially the congruent number problem.

- This past summer I got to be light designer for my first paid gig! It was Bye-Bye Birdie and it was such a blast. I really hope I have time in summers to work with that company again because they're a joy to design for.

[catwalkghost]

I saw a production of Cinderella last week and cannot get over how incredibly endearing it was

[stagefoot]

Thought you guys might find this cool! (I did 😅)

[dedicatedtechie]

Light and sound in their booths before the show starts

[kvothes]

some fun facts about the production of hamlet i’m in right now:

the ghost never appears physically

ghost scenes take place in complete darkness, lit only by the guards’ flashlights

rosencrantz and guildenstern’s first entrance involves a tango choreographed to beyoncé’s “crazy in love”

other transition music includes “applause” by lady gaga, “loveless” by lorde, “only angel” by harry styles, and “a little party never killed nobody”

gertrude is either drunk or hungover for the entire play

when polonius encounters hamlet to find the cause of his madness, hamlet is reading a copy of “infinite jest”

rosencrantz and guildenstern try to seduce hamlet into a threesome

they also try to seduce claudius

at intermission laertes goes onstage to practice his swordplay and flirt with the audience members in french. osric watches him from behind the curtain and takes notes

the pirates who deliver letters to horatio are dressed in trench coats, sunglasses, and fedoras

fortinbras is a thirteen-year-old boy

and finally:

hamlet doesn’t give the “to be or not to be” speech. horatio does. at the end of the play. over hamlet’s body

[kvothes]

YOU CAN WATCH THE SHOW HERE —> part one / part two

our theater has weird ambient noise, most of us are students, etc. etc. enjoy!

[theatreism]

suddenly seymour is here to provide me sweet understanding seymour’s my friend

[narratorstragedy]

i just saw someone refer to romeo as “the straightest man in all of shakespeare”… i have to laugh

[plague-on-both-your-houses]

Romeo would make a perfect lesbian but even as a man he has queer energy

[narratorstragedy]

exactly! and as for the straightest man in all of shakespeare, i propose somebody like polonius. or perhaps prospero? cast your votes!

[upstagetraveler]

Spent my day writing lights for a streaming guitar concert we are doing this weekend with an outside trio. They want 8 intimate looks in our large empty space.

[catwalkghost]

thinking about how the french really saw this clown dude and were like omg can we keep him

[valtsv]

the best hamlets are hamlets played by women because only a woman can deliver the line “i am very proud, revengeful, ambitious” as it’s intended to be spoken no you cannot change my mind

[gentlytamping]

also! he stops being pretty misogynistic and instead it’s internalised misogyny - there’s nothing as gut-wrenching and honest as watching a woman say the “frailty, thy name is woman” line/get thee to a nunnery speech/get angry at her mother

[danssesyeux]

Matheson Lang (1879-1948) as Hamlet (1914)

[5-to-places]

So out of curiosity, wolf anyone be interested in like. A podcast about Tech theatre? Kind of like this post I made forever ago that blew up

[IMAGE ID: tumblr user 5-to-places: You know what I want? I want a show in the Style of The Office, only it follows a production team at a theatre. Have like, an SM, some designers, front of house, an electrician, board ops, a Michael Scott-esque director who has all these big ideas, and actors that would cycle through every half season or at the end of the season. Idk just an idea. END IMAGE ID]

I'm kinda thinking of making it, but in an audio format, maybe framing it in the way of a Stage Manager who records production meetings, mixed in with phone calls and things like that.

This is what I'm thinking:

[IMAGE ID: Discord user Kestrel (They/He): So what I'm thinking is a podcast that follows a Tech crew at a theatre company, and I want it to have sort of SF (Stellar Firma) vibes but it'll be scripted. It'd mostly focus on tech crew, but there will obviously be a director, a few actors, etc. And the director has sort of Michael Scott vibes in the way of big ideas and no realistic way to achieve them, And the actors of varying degrees of coolness ranging from 'neat actor who helps out sometimes and generally gets along with tech' to Actor™️ (trademark emoji).

In terms of Tech characters I for sure want a design team (Scenic, Costume, Lighting, and Sound), a Props Master bc of course, a Tech Director, and maybe some scenic carpenters, stitches, and electricians. And a Stage Manager. END IMAGE ID]

I'm not gonna say its definitely gonna be a thing, but I would love to do it if there's an interest in it, so like. Let me know in the replies/reblogs!

[upstagetraveler]

Very excited to finish installing #16-20 of our full stage 20 areas top LED lights. Now even our Apron will have its own top LEDs for when we host OAP. Gotta love those ETC D40 Vivid pars!

[shesnake]

Hamlets and Ophelias played by women: Maxine Peake and Katie West (Royal Exchange 2014) // Ruth Negga and Aoife Duffin (Gate Theatre 2018) // Harriet Gordon-Anderson and Sophie Wilde (Bell Shakespeare 2020)