A lighting designer should really have a good electrician with them for foreign shows. It should be someone they’ve worked with before. Third world countries will often have questionable power or generators that were not designed for concert applications. When something goes wrong, I don’t want to worry about finding a translator who can find the guy whose brother rented them his 40 year-old generator. I want to call my tech who I know will be all over the problem.
—Nook Schoenfeld, from “LD at Large,” PLSN, Aug. 2008
