All teams are four-person teams, and every event is a team event involving all four members. Theatre is a team sport!

BACKstage Challenge Events

Audio: Cable Relay

In a relay format, your team will strike and coil cables from a simple audio setup, and – since the true test of a properly coiled cable is how well it uncoils – will hook it all back up again to play a sound file. 

Costuming: Quick Change

One member of your team will act as a performer, as everyone works together to facilitate a quick costume change. Costumes will be available for viewing at registration.

Lighting: Hang and Focus

Your entire team will take part in hanging and focusing a Source Four ellipsoidal, including a gel and gobo. This relay version of the classic solo event will require your team to refine your skills like never before. 

Rigging: Knot Tying

In another relay, your team will use three ropes to demonstrate how four specific knots – a clove hitch, a sheet bend, a bowline, and a trucker's hitch. 

Stage: Prop Shift

Your team will execute a prop shift, managing both the necessary changes “onstage” as well as the organization of a “backstage” prop table … all in silence.