rec.arts.theatre.stagecraft

In article <4705f318@ >,
Jonathan Walker wrote:
> Hi, folks.

> How would you handle the situation where a person that you had asked to
> operate the follow spot keeps readjusting the position of the lanterns
> adjacent to it instead of leaving them where you have set them?

> How I understand this is that in the same way that a Choir takes direction
> from the Choir Master, and actors take direction from the Stage Director,
> the Lighting Director is the person in the lighting team that has
> final say (subject to the Stage Director) over positioning of lanterns,
> colours, brightness, etc.

> Do you think that things in this matter are democratically decided, or
> arbitrarily decided by the Director (who may choose to take advise)?

> I am interested in hearing your views.

In principle, others shouldn't adjust lanterns when they have been set.
You say he keeps readjusting them. Presumably this means that they've
been reset and the person concerned has moved them again. Have you said
anything? or are you waiting for this newsgroup to give you advice?

Presumably the person concerned is not just doing it for fun - so there
needs to be a reason. Is it just the the person is bored, or is it that
these lanterns are making his follow spot job uncomfortable or impossible?
Or perhaps he can see, from his lofty perch, that there's a nasty shadow
which he/she is removing.

Whichever, he/she ought to say something.

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