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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / next question...

« on: May 01, 2005, 10:23 pm »

Ok here is the next one. Do you think it is better when roles and responsibilities are strickly defined, or when there is more of a blurring of roles between crew? For example, an SM is not meant to construct the set, but  it is always good to help out (this applies to helping cotume, your PM and so on). I often find the role of PM and SM merge more than others and I am researching how this can be fixed - or not fixed, perhaps the role blurring is necessary.

Anyway, what does everyone think on this topic?

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / more thoughts...

« on: Apr 13, 2005, 07:46 am »

Thanks alot to everyone who is discussing this topic! I am in the middle of production week as we speak, and keeping up administratively is certainly helping keep things in hand. (i also discovered the magic of the duplicate carbon paper notebook - you can pass notes on as you write them, and have proof that the message was sent too!)

I was hoping that I might keep using this thread as the process goes on, and give you guys some new thoughts that you might want to chat about. At the moment I am analysing the 'creative role' within Stage Management. Do you guys think that an SM has any creative input within a show? And where does this start and end (if it happens at all).

Thats about it for now, let me know what you think!

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / NEW WORKS: Intro's and Question's :)

« on: Apr 02, 2005, 12:00 am »

Hi All, my name is Ash and I'm brand-spanking new to this site! i'm in my final year of a Theatre/Media degree at CSU in Bathurst, Australia and have just gotten underway with my major work. Alongside it comes a major research case study, and I was hoping to pick brains and hopefully generate some interesting conversation on this forum!

Primarily I am looking at comparing stage management in devised performance (which is what I am undertaking at the moment with a youth theatre project) vs. stage management in pre-scripted theatre. Any experiences or thoughts?

I'd love to hear all your thoughts!