#Tech Week

[conquester]

i love during tech week and show week when everyone slowly gets sick and sicker to varying degrees. all of my friends in theatre are sick right now (we’re all pretending we’re not) and so we’ll be in the middle of a conversation and one of us will have a small coughing fit and neither one of us will acknowledge that it happened.

[adhdbraingoburrr]

Newsieeeees!

this is becoming relevant again

[abstractpenny]

theater is literally pulling 60 hour unpaid work weeks just cuz.

[sondheim-girly]

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[yum3mite]

arrived at the theater for tech week and i think the tech team fucked something up

[fio-of-the-fae-realm]

Sincerely, a current victim of two of the three Hell Weeks.

[orchardseaandsky]

how it feels to be in class when you do community theatre:

[very-tired-rat]

I just rediscovered my favorite video of all time, it's from tech week last year and it features a literal pile of people asleep in the corner, two of my friends learning a line dance, two of my other friends doing a 5 minute plank, a Shrek movie marathon and our very over-it director

[dingus0401]

i’m actually dead we’re in the middle of tech rehearsal running a serious scene, but some kid backstage didn’t know we started so he started belting santa fe😭💀

theatre kid culture at its finest.

[homebickles]

Look I’m all for them cancelling school but I swear to god I need to work another show right now I haven’t done tech work in MONTHS AND MY BONES ACHE TO CREATE A SONG SPREADSHEET AND CRY ABOUT PROJECTIONS!!

Let me do my sound techie work please, I need it so bad

[sixxwashere]

techies will solve every problem with gaff tape and caffeine and they are absolutely correct because i am techies

[sondheim-girly]

Theater kid culture is eating dinner at 4:30

[mikeru6]

tech week has made me the bitchiest man alive

[thought-not]

Unfortunately this is my circus and those are my monkeys

[crowscadence]

Tech week means doing ever feasible thing I can do to keep my immune system running while cramming assignments and running on minimal sleep

[ilianaoftroy]

May I propose an underrated whump injury? Dislocated patella aka kneecap. The dislocated shoulder is a staple and always good, but imagine the dislocated kneecap. It pops back in on its own, but the pain is still there, the ligaments damaged. You almost always get a bone bruise, a deep, aching pain. You CAN walk, mostly, but it hurts, running even more so. Stairs, going from sitting to standing, any heavy lifting, all a no go and very painful. Beyond pain, there's the instability that makes every movement anxiety inducing, because it could happen again, and something could tear worse, or the bruise could become a break. If you don't have hyper flexible ligaments the joint will swell terribly. If you do, it can be a recurring issue. Recovery is slow, including weeks to months of PT and possibly surgery. It has great potential.

Totally unrelated, I brought the big dance number in my show to a screeching halt during final tech by dislocating my patella. I now need a buddy to half haul me down the stairs to the dressing rooms and through half the dances. It is my second time dislocating this same patella (many years apart) and it is extremely annoying. If anybody wants to write this injury into a story, ask away, just know I don't have experience with the knee swelling symptom because I possess freakish hyper flexible ligaments.