It’s a problem ingrained in the very fabric of the theatre industry. There’s little infrastructure to support crucial backstage workers.
,” theatre in Toronto this past year has been nice to look at, perhaps even more so after two seasons away due to the pandemic.
But even without hard numbers, many of the designers, technicians and stage managers who are still around agree: there are more job contracts available in the Toronto theatre market than there are people to take them, which has piled on a pre-existing burnout problem. For some, backstage burnout seems inevitable: the obvious consequence of hard, meticulous work that, to most audiences, goes unnoticed and uncelebrated.
North is surrounded by fellow technicians and designers who work unnervingly heavy production schedules: “50, 60, 70 hours a week, week after week, until they can’t do it anymore and they’re forced to take some time off.” Morgan Myler, vice-president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 58, agrees that mental health concerns are pervasive in the backstage industry.
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