TheatreArtLife: When I was first learning how to “be” a stage manager, I learned how to properly record blocking, how to lay out spike tape, and the best way to distribute a schedule. Nothing prepared me for having a direct impact on the physical well-being of my performers.
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Human reaction time can seem like an annoying obstacle for many things where seconds really do count, but I do not know if replacing them with sensors and machines is always the best answer. Obviously, a smoke detector will do a better job than any single person could, but with less direct issues, things that are nuanced and unique, it is imperative to have a human at the wheel who is trained to respond and has the use of many different sources of information in order to best react to the issue at hand. Even if it might take an extra few seconds for a person to react than a machine would, there are certain things, like calling a show, that simply could not be replicated by even the most complicated machine. In fact I think it would take a machine so complicated that it would actually bog itself down with the amount of information needed and would make the wrong decision a lot of the time.
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