SoD Awards

Persons may be nominated for an award by stating their name and the circumstances surrounding the nomination in the Bar Book. Nominations must be proposed and seconded by a SoD member. Only the Chief SoD may decide whether a nomination deserves an award, which is, if successful, awarded at the next SoD dinner or garden party. Persons may be nominated for a new award in the same way. A person may not nominate or second without having first been quoted in the bar book in some way. All entries in the bar book must be signed.

Acronym	Explanation
SOD	Shaft Of Darkness
GWW	Go Without Warn
RSM	Random Stage Management
RTOPS	Red Trucks On Park Street
CONDUIT	Conversation Of No Discernable Use Inducing Tedium
STAB	Somewhat Terminally Aimed Bosch
BOG	Bloody Awful Gonk
G'THRANG	BOG with tabs
ABM	Athletic Bar Management
DHC	Dreaded Human Counterweight
MMMC	Miles and Miles of Mains (Mic) Cable
FART	Frightfully Artistic Ripped Tabs
TWIRP	Totally Wrong Interval Re Patch
GITS	Gratuitous Ignition of Tabs / Technicians
DIMWIT	Disastrously Incompetent Management With Insufficient Thought
GROT	Green & Red Omitted Totally
CAC	Comedy Award for Counterweights
USA	Unscheduled Stage Appearance
SPLAT	Set Painting Lacking All Taste
GROPE	Green Room Or Pervert's Ecstasy
RFL	Random Flashing Lights
ROLF	Ridiculously Over Long Feedback
RSG	Random Sound Generation
FKA	Frank Knight Award
BS	Birmingham Screw
UBK	Ultra Bright Kneecaps
OWS	Order of the Wobbly Spot / Set
RSA	Ridiculously Smoky Auditorium
PoS	Peals of Silence
PENFOLD	Producing Excuse (Naturally Feeble) for Over-engineered Lighting Design
GROAN	GRossly Over Amplified Noise
UFL	Unwanted Fairy Lights
EFF	Excessively Frequent Feedback
DISC	Disastrously Incompetent Scene Change
USSSR	Unscheduled Stage Sundry Store Replacement
DSM	Dead Stage Main
DBO	Dead Black Out
OGG	Order of the Gratuitous Gobo
SCSI	Set Construction in the Sodding Interval
GASH	Grand Accumulation of Suspended Heaviness
VOMIT	Very ‘Orrible Mess In the Toilets
FUCKWITS	Failure to Understand Computer Kit While Installing The Show
SPLAT	Set Painting Lacking All Taste
URL	Unnecessary ReLamping
SAWDUST	Scenedock And Workshop Disappearing Under Shredded Timber
KNOT	Knotted Nest of TRS
CABLE	Channels of Audio Belittling Lampie Extravagance
DIP	Doing It Properly

The original SoD award was awarded to those lighting designers who, through the course of the show, refocused their
lighting rig (esp. FoH) in order that a particularly precocious leading actor always ended up in darkness.

In the interests of ongoing debate I have decided not to explain the meaning of the awards.

E&OE 13 February 2005