Author Question: You have been hired to be the local Civic Theatre's new technical Director. After you have been ... (Read 94 times)

jCorn1234 · **on:** Aug 27, 2018

You have been hired to be the local Civic Theatre's new technical Director. After you have been hired, the Production Manager calls you in to give you a tour of the backstage area of the theatre and to tell you the requirements for your job.

They tell you that as the Technical Director it will be your responsibility to help with the load-in and striking of the show's sets, oversee the scene shop and order the building materials for the set, oversee the completion of the show's costumes, and finally to recruit assistant that work to move scenery during scene changes in actual shows. After the Production Manager is done giving you the list of requirements, you tell him that the list is wrong and that one requirement is not usually the responsibility of the Technical Director, this requirement most likely being?A. To help with the load-in and striking of the show's
sets,
B. To oversee the scene shop and order the building
materials for the set,
C. To oversee the completion of the show's costumes
D. To recruit assistant that work to move scenery
during scene changes in actual shows

Question 2

You are studying at your local University to be a Production Manager. During the Final Exam, you are asked to summarize the work of the Production Manager.

Knowing what you have learned, you would most likely summarize their work as which of the following?A. None of these choices.
B. Advising the actors on their actions in the play.
C. Work as the Director's right hand wo/man.
D. Overseeing much of what is created behind the scenes.