{"id":74,"date":"2011-03-10T23:47:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T23:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/expertstatus.org\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/?p=74"},"modified":"2014-10-30T15:27:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T15:27:39","slug":"stage-2-hits-the-credit-cards-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/stage-2-hits-the-credit-cards-hard","title":{"rendered":"stage 2 hits the credit cards HARD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the move into refurbished hall, we are left with a blank canvas&#8230;\u00a0 On the plus side there is the bigger performing space \/ auditorium.\u00a0 On the minus side there is a suspended ceiling to which we can no longer attach lighting bars, a lower ceiling which limits our lighting options, no wiring for lights or sound, no dedicated power supply, a hall management committee who are terrified to let us touch any structure or surface lest it be irrevocably scarred, and a show to put on in a few weeks time.\u00a0 No pressure then!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_77\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-77\" href=\"http:\/\/expertstatus.org\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/stage-2-hits-the-credit-cards-hard\/kaboom\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77 \" title=\"credit card maxed out\" src=\"http:\/\/expertstatus.org\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KaBoom-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"under pressure\" width=\"432\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KaBoom-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KaBoom-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KaBoom-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/KaBoom.jpg 1472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 85vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-77\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now we really need to sell some flippin&#39;tickets!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>German engineering partly to the rescue; we have ordered a large aluminium box frame to go over the stage to which we can attach lighting and drapery.\u00a0 Great! (but a mountain of cash).\u00a0 We have also marshalled our local electrician for power supply fitting, purchased the requisite miles of cables \/ festoons of dmx thingies, other goobledegook wossits, extra tripods and hired led lights so as not to set the actors heads on fire&#8230; Credit card stretched beyond limits&#8230; &#8220;she canna take it cap&#8217;n\u00a0\u00a0 aaaaarrrrrg! [KABOOM!!!]\u00a0 Not to worry then.<\/p>\n<p>Now we REALLY need to sell some flippin tickets!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the move into refurbished hall, we are left with a blank canvas&#8230;\u00a0 On the plus side there is the bigger performing space \/ auditorium.\u00a0 On the minus side there is a suspended ceiling to which we can no longer attach lighting bars, a lower ceiling which limits our lighting options, no wiring for lights &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/stage-2-hits-the-credit-cards-hard\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;stage 2 hits the credit cards HARD!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,21,4,16,18,17,19,15,5],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-aaarrrg","tag-bca","tag-berrow-village-hall","tag-dmx","tag-fringe-benefits-tickets","tag-gobbledegook","tag-kaboom","tag-led-lights","tag-stage-2-drama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage2drama.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}