The Empty Space

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage - Peter Brook, The Empty Space

We need to sort out lights tomorrow. Do we want a general wash? No. We need all the lights on the floor. The tabs are open. The fire exit is exposed. The get in is the get out. The pre-rigging is the de-rigging. The final image is the first image. When we're onstage doing the sound check we're coming across as technicians. Are we technicians? The point is we may have people thinking this is a show about people being technicians which it's not. I see it as part of our stage persona. We do a sound check. We do a cue-to-cue. What I like is when we're rehearsing onstage and the lights go out half way through. We go 1, 2, 1, 2 because we've seen someone do a sound check. Playing music while rigging is what technicians do. It does mean we have to be quite comfortable with lighting and sound. We have a small desk which we can tour with. The thing is we're controlling all the lights. So maybe you're in the middle of something and I turn the lights off. Or the other way around.