eJournal Sept 2021 Volume 6 - Flipbook - Page 21
No. 2: How to be one?
SriG
At the same time, strike a balance on not overloading the
team, especially the actors. As it is, they will be nervous
about the lines and emoting. Adding additional
responsibilities must be managed carefully.
Be flexible yet firm; creative people tend to do almost
everything last minute. So, there must always be a Plan B.
After the first show, a few areas took much longer than
envisaged. So, an additional snippet of a scene was
introduced to make it seamless. Plan C, you say!
Communicate to death. With close to a 40-member cast
and crew team & at least ten WhatsApp groups to
manage, miscommunication was bound to happen, and it
did. Be ready to acknowledge and correct the course
again and again and again.
Since it was an amateur play, the only reward at the end is
the approbation from the audience. Every one of us yearn
for recognition and appeal to that vanity! It works
wonders!
Valuable lessons, they were. Naturally, the exhilaration
one had after the successful staging of three shows in
front of an appreciative audience was much better than
some of the complex software cutovers that one had
been part of! Partly because this was achieved with
attributes NOT associated with command-and-control
method of management! As they say, pyaar se…
