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Anoint my head...
Apr. 9th, 2008 08:17 amWe have our first preview audience tonight--the set wasn't finished as of yesterday, because the theatre's TD was off building a set for another company elsewhere. Hopefully he won't do something that really screws us up; block off a light, put up a trip hazard, something. We did get our last piece of set dressing yesterday--I took a photo of it, but left in in the theatre, so I'll have to make due with a description for the time being.
The set itself is mostly painted on flats--the effect being that we're living inside an Expressionist painting. A painted stove, cabinet, sink, coat rack--all with limited functionality. The oven on the painted stove opens and belches smoke when dinner is burned. The painted coatrack has real hooks camoflaged in it, so we can hang our coats on the wall.
The exception (outside of things we have to sit on, or the table set up at an outlandish rake) is a very real, antique birdcage that stands in the corner as a reference to the metaphor of Louise being trapped in her marriage. Inside that cage, as an homage to the author, we have placed a bird that is shaped like, well, this:
The cage is designed such that the bird actually looks kinda like a big yellow blob, but even if they could make it out, I doubt that anyone but the rarest of audience members would get the joke. I still think it's great.
Friends & Family performance tonight, for anyone in who wants to see the show for the low low price of zero dollars. Although frankly if anyone on my LJ friendslist comes to see the show, I'll make sure they get that price at any performance.
The set itself is mostly painted on flats--the effect being that we're living inside an Expressionist painting. A painted stove, cabinet, sink, coat rack--all with limited functionality. The oven on the painted stove opens and belches smoke when dinner is burned. The painted coatrack has real hooks camoflaged in it, so we can hang our coats on the wall.
The exception (outside of things we have to sit on, or the table set up at an outlandish rake) is a very real, antique birdcage that stands in the corner as a reference to the metaphor of Louise being trapped in her marriage. Inside that cage, as an homage to the author, we have placed a bird that is shaped like, well, this:
The cage is designed such that the bird actually looks kinda like a big yellow blob, but even if they could make it out, I doubt that anyone but the rarest of audience members would get the joke. I still think it's great.
Friends & Family performance tonight, for anyone in who wants to see the show for the low low price of zero dollars. Although frankly if anyone on my LJ friendslist comes to see the show, I'll make sure they get that price at any performance.
