How to torture a director 101

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Today I had a preliminary meeting with Chris, my technical director, to discuss set design for Shrew.  I had basic ideas of what I needed (entrances & exits, what was going to be elaborate, what would be reasonably minimalist, etc).

You know that line about plans and surviving first contact?

Sometimes, it works out in your favour too.

I can’t talk about it much yet (this would be the “how to torture the director” part) because it wouldn’t be fair to Chris, but he’s made a couple suggestions for design elements that never occurred to me and will make the set look so good and give the actors some fun things to interact with as well.

I promise – when I can speak of it, I will be.  For now, I’ll just say that once again, I am the luckiest girl in the world because I have enormously talented people who like working with me.  If I have learned one thing in my years of theatre, it is that – finding talented people whom you can work with well is the best gig – my hair-brained schemes wind up finding fertile ground to grow into brilliant things.

In the meantime, I’ll go back to bouncing in my chair in excitement.

If you're in the TBT site

and having weird "having to refresh things over and over to see anything" issues, my apologies.

Apparently bad guys (TM) tried to break us yesterday. My guys say they didn't, but things have been not loading for some reason.

Trying to find out if this is the bad guys got us or IT's response was to lock things down a wee bit too tightly.

Meanwhile, I beat my head against the desk while I bounce...