rec.arts.theatre.stagecraft

David Lawver wrote in
news:13gfh8k3d8bt495@ :

> Jonathan Walker wrote:
> > On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:39:28 -0500, Duane wrote:
> >> A failure of communication?
>
> >> If the spot operator is just being an a_s, find someone
> >> else and
> fire them.
> >>
> >> And both need to learn how to talk and listen to one
> >> another.
>
> Mostly agree with everything that's been said... a couple of
> points:
>
> Good follow spot operators are NOT that easy to come by. If
> this guy is really skillful it may be worth working out.

Great spot-ops are hard to find, good ones are not. Can a bad
flyman wreck a show? Not as much someone who changes the
lighting without telling anyone or discussing it with anyone.
When you have a prison-break followspot, you know it's the spot-
op. When the lights plot isn't set up correctly, you nail the
LD. When you have a rogue technician doing his own thing, he's
smearing someone else's job performance, and that is simply
unacceptable.

If it was an actor making up his own lines, or suddenly changing
his blocking without telling anyone, there wouldn't be any
question about whether he'd be fired. What this clown did was
much the same thing, and our tolerance should follow accordingly.

--
}:-) Christopher Jahn
{:-( /

"You will find that the State is the kind of ORGANIZATION which,
though it does big things badly, does small things badly too." -
John Kenneth Galbraith