Intermission Magazine: A couple years ago, I went to a performance at a major Toronto theatre company where a technical issue repeatedly delayed the start of the show. The auditorium would dim, the opening music would play — but then the house lights would come back on and an apologetic voice on the god mic would announce that the difficulties were still ongoing. The first time this happened, the audience was understanding. The second time, we were exasperated. By the third malfunction, we thought this was freaking hilarious, and greeted the voice’s apology with a round of applause. Once the show finally began, that first streak of failure had united us — and delighted us — as a flawless performance never could.
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Speaking in draft is an interesting concept that I hear a lot and enjoy learning about, but I’ve always wondered about a potential downside of it, that when you speak in draft you sound like you’re not confident in what you’re talking about. In this industry, you almost always need to sound confident when you’re leading a team, especially a team that you don’t know very well, and it has always been hard for me personally to find the right balance between acknowledging that I don’t know something and / or am working something out as we are talking through it, with being the sort of person who is captaining the ship and can’t look too confused or something. I think it may be different in the settings that speaking in draft is usually used in, but I have personally always struggled to find a setting that it is suited for.
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