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Patience
Spring 2005 |
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I was co-Technical Director with Jeff
Spindler. That means we were responsible for all aspects of set
construction (not painting, thank goodness!), getting the set to the
theater, erecting it, and getting it out of the theater. Our
production schedule is something less than three months.
This was one of the prettier sets UMGASS has put together in the 6 years I've been doing this. Most of the credit goes to the set designers, Cynthia Lempert and Laura Strowe. |
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This closeup of the house
doesn't do it
justice. The bricks, mullions, shingles, and door inlay are all
painted on. The drop shadows and other details made it look real
from as close as ten feet away. Some details were 3D at the
insistence of the set designers, such as window frame recesses, but
that just helped confuse the observers into thinking they were looking
at a fully dimensional set.
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Erik helped make the walls.
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| The other thing I did was provide a
bust of the male lead, a character named Bunthorne. Here they are
together. The head is made from a soft, self-skinning urethane
foam from Monster Makers. The chest section has a carved
styfofoam core with muslin collar, lapels, and ascot. The muslin
was sipped in a solution of white glue, joint compound, and water to
make it rigid. |
