Micha Rudack theatre technician

Theatre technician talks about landscape, difficulty of setting cacti on fire

WILDCAT: So what are you building currently?

RUDACK: A tree.

WILDCAT: Nice. For what?

RUDACK: A Midsummer's Night Dream.

WILDCAT: Are you painting it?

RUDACK: No, making it with foam. We are taking tree legs and laminating foam onto a steel frame.

WILDCAT: Wow. I used to construct things with foam when I was little. Except it was my dad's shaving foam and I would make a little bathing suit with it. Very cute.

RUDACK: There you go. Do you still do it?

WILDCAT: No! I mean, it's not really a tree, but I thought I was pretty dang creative. Speaking of bathing suits, are you so glad that the weather is heating up?

RUDACK: Yeah. But we have a little dungeon action going on over where I work, so you go in when it's dark and come out when it's dark.

WILDCAT: That's totally like the newsroom.

RUDACK: Do you have a pole to slide down there?

WILDCAT: Yes, yes we do.

RUDACK: Do you have a red phone?

WILDCAT: No, but we have red blinky lights on our phones.

RUDACK: Do you have a Batmobile?

WILDCAT: Yes. Well, actually it's an old beat up truck that says Arizona Daily Wildcat on the side. But, I am concerned that the roles have reversed in this conversation, I'm supposed to be asking the questions.

RUDACK: Sorry.

WILDCAT: So, do nice days like today make you want to frolic through meadows?

RUDACK: Okay. Do you see a lot of meadows around here? This is a sharp desert.

WILDCAT: So you probably wouldn't want to frolic naked then.

RUDACK: No. I don't frolic. I'm a smoker so ·

WILDCAT: So you would kill the meadow with your smoke.

RUDACK: Yeah, or set it on fire. Do you know how hard it is to se a cactus on fire? If you ever try to have a cactus bonfire it doesn't work.

WILDCAT: Good to know.