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Load-out 拆台
Taking the production out of the venue: strike the set, de-rig, pack, load the trucks. It usually happens at night, at speed, against a curfew, with people who have already worked a show, which is why it takes a large share of the industry's injuries.
中文
把演出撤出場地：拆景、落燈、打包、上車。通常在深夜趕時間進行，而且大家已經做完一場演出，所以工傷比例特別高。
Regional usage
| Where | Term | Note |
|---|---|---|
| US | Load-out | |
| UK | Get-out | |
| HK / TW | 拆台 | |
| AU / NZ | Bump-out |
Easy to get wrong
「拆台」在日常華語裡是當眾拆別人的台、扯後腿的意思。在通告表上它就是撤場。
Load-out is not strike. Strike is dismantling the physical production; load-out is the whole departure, including packing, dock and trucks.
A venue's stated load-out finish time is usually a licence condition, not a target. Overrunning it is a legal problem, not a scheduling one.
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Strike拆（拆景、收道具）To remove something. The word scales from one prop taken off during a scene change to the entire production c…Load-in裝台The period when the production arrives at the venue and goes up: trucks unloaded, rig hung, set built, system…Get-in入台The British and Hong Kong word for load-in: the production arriving at the venue and going up. The same word …
Sources
- Glossary of theater terms — Wikipedia primary
- 臺中國家歌劇院 技術資料 — 臺中國家歌劇院
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