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I'm in tech, and our actors are no longer allowed to call for lines.

Today one of the actor's called line and my ASM gave her line. She said she felt pressured by everyone onstage who was looking at her waiting for the line. However, she then was ripped to shreds by our director for giving the line.

Is there a SM save all sentence she could give when an actor calls for line? Possibly instead of just yelling "No"?
Thanks.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / First Tech Rehearsal
« on: Apr 28, 2007, 12:40 pm »
I'm about to run my first Tech Rehearsal ever as a PSM.

Any advice, suggestions, help in any way you can offer me?

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Hello all. I'm new and in my first position as a PSM. I'm an undergrad in college, and started ASMing earlier this year. My issue currently is that my Director (a 2nd Year Directing MFA) is paranoid, offensive, and just down right over stepping his boundaries. He's a nice enough guy but he is constantly telling me that people in the hierarchy of our School of Theater have "lied" to me about such issues and keys, rehearsal spaces, and rehearsal blocks. I've been in acting for 14 years and have never had to deal with someone such as my current Director. We're less than 2 weeks into rehearsal and he has offend most of the cast, all of our production team, and is just downright rude to myself and my ASM.

For the first few days, I just assumed that he was still feeling myself and my ASM out, and by that I mean figuring out just how much he could trust us to accomplish. Neither of us as slipped up, forgotten anything, or lost one bit of info. In fact, we're usually about 10 steps ahead of what he's expecting of us, and my ASM and I are both more than willing to apologize and take the blame if we do make a mistake. I've tried speaking to him and the Director of our School of Theater, but have not been able to accomplish anything.

Our Technical Director is about ready to beat him to death with a 2x4 and the rest of our Production Staff is constantly on edge due to his viscious mood swings. Tonight was the final straw for me, he verbally abused me in front of the entire cast of our production because yet again I was "being lied to." The actor's came up and were apologizing to me for his behavior! The other problem is that he has called me back for the play he is directing in the fall, and I don't want to offend him prior to callbacks, but I also don't very much want to work with him EVER AGAIN!

I'm sorry this is so long...I just needed to vent my frustrations a bit. Any tips on dealing with a director like this (though I hope most of you have never had to)?

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