Tech not Talent
The technical aspects of a theatrical production are lights and sound. For each we need designers and operators.
The main purpose of lights is to ensure the actors can be seen. But there’s much more to it than that. Lighting can indicate time of day, weather, change of scene, mood of protagonists, or just pretty lighting effects. All these must be designed in close collaboration with the director. All need an operator in close collaboration with the stage manager, paying attention to the script and the action on stage.
Ours is a small theatre with good acoustics, so we don’t rely on sound techniques just to hear the actors, but we rely on sound to do the everything else that lighting does using both music and sound effects. Again we have designers and operators.
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