TECH: Barrel-Through Tech

[maximillionx]

I think the way balletPSM and SMrose put it, "tech is for techies" is an antiquated phrase.  I am just getting out of college so perhaps I should stop using the term...I can admit when I am wrong. Apologies.

Back onto barrel through...anyone else have any good/bad experiences?

[cdcarter]

I have been exposed or convinced to try as many different ways of running techs that you could imagine, but I keep falling back to one method.  A paper tech with every designer a week out, and then two days of tech, going through the show in order, writing and finalizing cues, relatively cue to cue, but giving the actors or director some time if they want to run a scene.