Technical Mushrooms

all of my tech theatre stuff, one tumblr stream.

[technicalmushrooms]

The world may be full of hate and despair but it’s also full of backstage technicians who secretly are wearing really fun socks under their stage blacks

[maniacmcgee]

Y’all… what do you guys do for a living… but describe it in the worst way possible.

[technicalmushrooms]

I blind people while they sweat and sometimes scream.

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She spike on my tape ‘til I roll

[technicalmushrooms]

For the second time in a month, I’m backstage and all I can think about the post from @stagefoot titled “The Crew Deserves Content Warnings.”

I’m sitting backstage right now, in a high school theatre. The play tonight is about a high school shooting. And it’s intense relative to that. Did I get any warning? Any choice? No. And, yeah, I’m holding on, but if I had responsibilities during this show beyond Just Sitting Here, I don’t know if I could execute them.

We need to expect better. Please, read the amazing Stagefoot’s post for better thoughts on this.

This message, unlike most of mine, is not aimed at other techs/crew This is for everyone else involved in a production: directors, stage ma

[technicalmushrooms]

Theatre technicians can and will go through TSA with the wildest shit

[technicalmushrooms]

Heard someone say “leko” today referring to an ERS and i viscerally reacted

[vampdude]

i cant believe i put all this time and effort and get so stressed just so these silly little people can pretend to be fictional characters and sing silly little songs with silly little dances on a stage

[technicalmushrooms]

An apple a day does not, in fact, keep the doctor away. Spiders Georg is now eating upwards of 2,000 apples a day and refuses to seek medical attention

[geniusoflove]

i hate when ppl complain abt hot glue guns like sorry u havent gotten to know ur beast. its like a horse you have to have a bond and work together

[galadhir]

honestly being bonded to my hot glue gun is 90% of the problem

[technicalmushrooms]

There is one (1) good hot glue gun in my main theatre and it will be passed down through prop team lineage for decades to come 🥲

[technicalmushrooms]

“If we keep up with this level of haze, we’re going to rename this show Into the High School Bathroom.” -Prop Captian

[babygirlifier-deactivated202402]

*exiting the theater covered in blood* i love stage crew ^_^

[stagefoot]

SM: ’k, thank you.

(Everyone keeps going)

SM: …‘Thank you’ means ‘stop.’

[technicalmushrooms]

Wait uhoh

When I (technical director) say thank you it means go

Specifically “Okay, stop staring at me and go do the thing I need you to do”

[technicalmushrooms]

wow, all these beautiful stock image women who happen to have OFs are so into my technical theatre shitposts

[technicalmushrooms]

In her 2008 hit “Circus,” Britney Spears claims “There’s only two types of people in this world: those who entertain and those who observe.” However, there is a third type of person: the elusive, exhausted technician. In this essay I will

[technicalmushrooms]

Things I have googled today for tech theatre:

“How to make hinges more squeaky”

“Can you walk into a park and shoot a goose”

[stagefoot]

Head Audio: And then they were caught with their pants down.

Stage Manager: And no one wants that. If nothing else, it’s an OSHA violation.

[technicalmushrooms]

FMK: source 4, leko, ers

There is one right answer.