it’s been a long week.

on tuesday, i fired my propsmaster.

on wednesday, my technical director quit.

on thursday, the city of evanston tried to shut down our theatre due to a wiring code violation. (happily, they did not succeed, and the wiring in question has since been brought up to code.) on the other hand, had they shut down the theatre, then tuesday and wednesday’s mishaps wouldn’t have mattered so much, as we’d all have been out of a job.

on friday, the lights developed a mysterious and hard-to-diagnose christmas-light-like flicker problem, which continued to plague us today (sunday). our ME is so overworked and (i suspect) frustrated that i’m having nightmares that he’ll quit, too.

now i am production manager and propsmaster and technical director for the production that opens on (can’t-come-soon-enough) monday. luckily for me i hired another stage manager to do this show, or i’d be four people right now, which might cause my head to explode.

i did, however build a brillian oxygen tent after i took over propping the show. i also created an evening bag/holster for an actress to hide an IV bag full of water under her arm so that she could make gush water out of her mouth after her drowning in the bathtub scene, and with andy’s help i assembled a gigantic radioactive jenga set.

this job was definitely not listed in the career center files in college.