I'm posting from 35,491 feet in the air, after having just watched an episode of Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe, streamed from my home PC through the air to my iPad, in the air.

Isn't technology glorious?

Also Barrow-in-Furness to Reading is a silly long drive and I don't wish to do that again!!

I'm guessing the plane has Wifi.

I'm guessing the plane has Wifi.

Excellent stuff! Are you getting paid for it?

Also, MaliA, actresses are notorious sluts, so you'll probably pull!

Also, MaliA, actresses are notorious sluts, so you'll probably pull!

The responsibilities and duties of stage management vary depending on the setting of a production (i.e., rehearsal or performance) and the type of production (e.g., theatre, dance, music). Most broadly, it is the stage manager's responsibility to ensure that the director's artistic choices are realized in actual performance.

As the lighting, sound, and set change cues are developed, the stage manager records the timing of each as it relates to the script and other aspects of the performance. The stage manager maintains a prompt book, sometimes called "the book" or "the bible," which contains all cues, technical notes, blocking and other information pertinent to the show.

During rehearsals, the stage manager typically serves as an adjunct to the director by recording the blocking and ensuring that cast members stay on script, have the requisite props, and follow the blocking. Stage managers are responsible for helping establish a show's rehearsal schedule and ensuring that rehearsals run on time. The stage manager typically documents each rehearsal in a rehearsal report.

Once the house opens for a performance, the stage manager controls all aspects of the performance by calling the cues for all transitions (this is known as "calling the show") and acting as communications hub for the cast and crew. Large productions may utilize a stage management team in which the manager is responsible for calling the show while other team members operate backstage to ensure actors and crew are ready to perform their duties. After a show opens, the stage manager is also responsible for calling brush-up, put in and understudy rehearsals to make sure that the show's quality is maintained.[3]

The stage manager ensures that lighting and sound cues are acted upon at the right time by issuing verbal standby and prompt calls. Each cue call begins with the word "standby" to indicate that an action is imminent and, in response, the technician who will perform the action acknowledges readiness to perform the action. At the appropriate time, the stage manager will prompt immediate execution of the action by saying "go".

It seems I have agreed to play rugby for a new team on Sat.....

You chauvinist pigs.

Good evening, I'm MaliA. Mighty space pirate. Stick with me, and over the course of 90 minutes, a couple of montages and a chase scene, I'll come to realise that yes, I am that indeed, but I'll mend my ways to be with you. Then we'll roll during the credits.

Just sent an email to two guys called Chuck and Rocky. How American is that?!

*checks watch*

It doesn't SEEM to be Elizabethan England-o-clock...

It will be, next time Grim fixes the forum clock.

REM have split up

http://remhq.com/news_story.php?id=1446

I'll not lose sleep over it

Ha

I'll not lose sleep over it

Utterly disgusted with the United States, in particular Georgia, today.

Yeah, tell me about it. They really need to get over this whole killing people thing.

And some one else had admitted it, and all the witnesses now say it was not him....

But he was black... that'll do.

Clearly, because I AM MAN, and between my MANLY THIGHS hang MIGHTY GLOBES OF MONUMENTAL PROPORTIONS, I have TORN SECTIONS OF THE FRIDGE APART so that the door will shut again.

IT'S NOT A GREAT... Er... It's not a great job, but it'll do. We really need a new fridge (that's twice the size of normal fridges*).

So, yeah. The fridge door will shut if you're gentle with it.

* LIKE MY BALLS! And I don't mean twice the size of a normal man's balls, I MEAN TWICE THE SIZE OF A NORMAL FRIDGE!

I'm sure your mother will enjoy receiving that.

Just seen a job advert where one of the essential requirements is 'a good sense of humour'. Is this discriminatory?

Depends. Is it for a resident stand up comic?