Wednesday, September 23, 2009
A Multicolored Script
Steppenwolf Theatre Company Blog: "Greetings from the basement of Steppenwolf Theatre! I am Karyn, the 2009-2010 Downstairs Stage Management Apprentice. I am currently working on Fake, the new play written and directed by ensemble member Eric Simonson. This is the first world premier show I have ever worked on, and it is quite a change of pace for me!"
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I had some experience with constantly adapting shows when I stage managed a student-written one-act festival at my high school. One show in particular, an epic tragedy called "Painting a Promise", made constant cuts and changes nearly every day of rehearsal. Karyn is so correct in saying that the slightest change in wording or inflection can completely change the meaning of a line, especially in intellectual works like "PaP" and "Fake". "Fake" will have closed by the time I get back to Chicago for Thanksgiving, but I would have gone if I could.
Color is a savior for Stage Managers. Not only does rotating colors for script changes help, but doing so for run sheets, presets, and any document that has potential to change frequently. It is very easy to look on the deck and see that your crew is using the brown preset sheets as opposed to the most updated green ones. Additionally, if you have a digital copy of the script (most new works will), you can turn on edit tracking in Word and it will keep track of every change made, when it was made, and who made it. This makes it easy to go back through and undo changes or see why they were made.
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