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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Calling attention
« on: Oct 29, 2007, 01:23 am »
Working with large casts (98 members this last show) of high school students myself, I have to agree with sievep on this one. I find that when other members of our stage management use excessive force, such as blowing whistles and yelling when not needed, they get less respect form the actors. This causes them to have to uses even more force to get their attention.
I think when you can build a positive working relationship with the actors they will be much more likely to listen when you speak, and when they don't a slight raise of voice or change in stance (physical apperence) will do the trick.
I think when you can build a positive working relationship with the actors they will be much more likely to listen when you speak, and when they don't a slight raise of voice or change in stance (physical apperence) will do the trick.