A minorly heated discussion about the actors’ timetable in the week we open. We open on a Friday, and we have the theatre all week. I wanted to be in there as much as possible, however, the actors have jobs, and we have to work around them. My fear is the tech rehearsal and all that. (perhaps heightened by the complexity of the last full length play I directed when I remember setting states and cues one day only to find that the lighting designer hadn’t written them down, so we had to start all over again the next day.) I’ve also experienced tech week as a time where the whole company is hanging out together, and now I’m having to work around little three hour slots, which barely give time to run the play, let alone tweak.
In the end we reached some kind of compromise. I get mildly put out when I’m told how much harder things are here, wanting to point out that I’ve scarcely ever been paid a proper salary for anything I’ve done in the theatre, including now, but succeeded in steering clear of a theatre of poverty debate. The actors seem to think that the lighting etc shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours to set up. Whilst the play is relatively simple, I’m not convinced it will be quite as easy as all that. Will all come out in the last week’s wash.
The other issue is that Carlos, the composer, who came to watch the run tonight, has put forward a figure of 17 000 pesos for his budget (for studio/ musicians etc) which is way out of the play’s range (about 500 UKP). He’s completely enamoured of the play, wants to do it justice, but is living in advertising world. Tomorrow Karina has to tell him his cap is 10 000 pesos, which still seems a relatively large figure. If we don’t get the money we might get from the Intendencia, (Montevideo City), he’s not going to have any budget at all.
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