29th January, 2009 - 10 Things I Love About the Theatre #6

The sixth thing I love about the theatre is a top notch get out. The “get out” is the process of stripping the show down after it’s finished: removing the scenery, packing the props and loading the van. There is something inevitably a little sad about the process. Well – unless you hated the show – and then you can’t wait to see the back of it. But usually, you are a little sad to see it go – it’s like one of your kids going off to get married.

But there is also a rather nice community feeling about the thing The banter is usually at its best and there is the common goal of getting to the pub. It is the closest I get to manual labour and it is rather nice to have the fairly simple goal of packing the van as the most important thing in my mind.