Comments on: Safety Belongs in Never-Never Land Too! http://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/safety-belongs-in-never-never-land-too/ A Home for Theatrefolk's Amazing Playwrights Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joseph Joyce http://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/safety-belongs-in-never-never-land-too/#comment-2881 Joseph Joyce Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:03:18 +0000 http://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/?p=2476#comment-2881 terrifying. absolutely terrifying. why do high schools and community theaters insist on flying people in these productions? i know it really wows the parents to see little sally fly across stage but the risk is just too high. schools: buy some new lights, upgrade your speakers, pay the teachers more, i don't care what you do, but what is it going to cost when you seriously injure some kid doing this pointless crap? this has nothing to do with a "professional" rig. foy and zfx don't stay and pull ropes for every production. they train the crew and then go on their way. which is fine. but they need to have qualified people to teach. bush-league looking sets are fine so long as they don't fall on anyone. but if you can't even master that then what business do you have lifting a kid even an inch above the floor? NONE. i would fire everyone. the football team gets new jerseys and you do "our town" on an empty stage. terrifying. absolutely terrifying. why do high schools and community theaters insist on flying people in these productions? i know it really wows the parents to see little sally fly across stage but the risk is just too high. schools: buy some new lights, upgrade your speakers, pay the teachers more, i don’t care what you do, but what is it going to cost when you seriously injure some kid doing this pointless crap?

this has nothing to do with a “professional” rig. foy and zfx don’t stay and pull ropes for every production. they train the crew and then go on their way. which is fine. but they need to have qualified people to teach. bush-league looking sets are fine so long as they don’t fall on anyone. but if you can’t even master that then what business do you have lifting a kid even an inch above the floor? NONE.

i would fire everyone. the football team gets new jerseys and you do “our town” on an empty stage.

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