PLAYground
So, this is what our department calls playground week. This week changes between fall and spring depending on what else is going on. This year it happens to fall right now.
So what is a "Playground" week? Well, despite the huge monopoly board sitting in our front lobby...
playground is instead a week dedicated to putting on any kind of performance art you hear tmight be attached to. So times maybe you have some tech people writing and acting in a musical, or maybe you make a movie, maybe it ia dance, maybe it is a light show. Pretty much anything goes. Last year there was a show done in a bathroom (don't ask)...that is the mentality of playground. We have no drama classes, we are instead to focus our energy on these nonsupported shows which have less than a week to rehearse and then show friday-sunday. Each show gets about 1 hour in the space for set up and show. There are about 40 shows depending how many cancel...
It is a great expierence for a lot of people and isn't to horrendous. This does however put everything on hold. So The Chairs (which has a new director) is sitting in the hall waiting for an empty theatre on Monday.
Glass Menagerie begins it's buil don Monday and as we jsut found out, there will now be a door, so I guess it is time to draft that wall.
Urinetown however, has not hit the brakes. Rather it just keeps going... The portal has made tremendous progress, We had a fit together over the weekend for it and found oh so many problems. There toggles that were obviously not square, walls that were just plain the wrong size...holes for lights that were not matched up because the framing was in the wrong spot. We got all the quinks worked out except that we are still short 1 lighting hole which needs to be fixed because it looks weird.
Remember the things that looked like a big boot?, well now they are painted and finished. I was going to show a picture of the wonderful staricases that have been built and cut and fixed and cut and blah blah blah but it doesn;t seem to want to load. I guess you are lucky.
Here is a picture of a drafting of what this thing will sort of look like when it is complete.
and a complete wall
And I guess that leaves us to one amazing person. This is our third floor hallway. Remember how I said just about anything goes for playground, well one student has permission to paint the hallway.
I guess that will probably be it until crew starts up again on monday.
Oh Urinetown had a great run through of Act I tonight. The cast did a wonderful job and for how little rehearsal time they have had it is quite impressive.
So what is a "Playground" week? Well, despite the huge monopoly board sitting in our front lobby...
playground is instead a week dedicated to putting on any kind of performance art you hear tmight be attached to. So times maybe you have some tech people writing and acting in a musical, or maybe you make a movie, maybe it ia dance, maybe it is a light show. Pretty much anything goes. Last year there was a show done in a bathroom (don't ask)...that is the mentality of playground. We have no drama classes, we are instead to focus our energy on these nonsupported shows which have less than a week to rehearse and then show friday-sunday. Each show gets about 1 hour in the space for set up and show. There are about 40 shows depending how many cancel...
It is a great expierence for a lot of people and isn't to horrendous. This does however put everything on hold. So The Chairs (which has a new director) is sitting in the hall waiting for an empty theatre on Monday.
Glass Menagerie begins it's buil don Monday and as we jsut found out, there will now be a door, so I guess it is time to draft that wall.
Urinetown however, has not hit the brakes. Rather it just keeps going... The portal has made tremendous progress, We had a fit together over the weekend for it and found oh so many problems. There toggles that were obviously not square, walls that were just plain the wrong size...holes for lights that were not matched up because the framing was in the wrong spot. We got all the quinks worked out except that we are still short 1 lighting hole which needs to be fixed because it looks weird.
Remember the things that looked like a big boot?, well now they are painted and finished. I was going to show a picture of the wonderful staricases that have been built and cut and fixed and cut and blah blah blah but it doesn;t seem to want to load. I guess you are lucky.
Here is a picture of a drafting of what this thing will sort of look like when it is complete.
and a complete wall
And I guess that leaves us to one amazing person. This is our third floor hallway. Remember how I said just about anything goes for playground, well one student has permission to paint the hallway.
I guess that will probably be it until crew starts up again on monday.
Oh Urinetown had a great run through of Act I tonight. The cast did a wonderful job and for how little rehearsal time they have had it is quite impressive.
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