How does the experience of working on a television production differ from working on a theatre stage?
I think the biggest difference is for theatre, you have to get it right the first time and you have to get it right in one continuous go. Whereas on TV, and I’m not experienced in television, it just seems like one take after another. You do it, ‘Oh, sorry, no, it wasn’t quite right for sound,’ you do it again ‘Oop, no, it wasn’t quite right from this angle,’ ‘Nope, the lighting’s just gone, sorry, let’s do it again.’ With theatre we’ve got to get it right, we’ve got to do it live and if it goes wrong we have to keep going. Give us an idea of what it’s like to be a producer. I always say that a producer really does three things: chooses the project, chooses who’s going to work on the project – like the director, choreographer, designer – and raises money for the project. And then manages that team. The fourth thing that he does before, during and after, is focuses on sales and selling tickets. In a simplified version, that’s what I think my job is. There’s a lot of subtext to it other
