UW Whitewater Theatre/Dance Department

We’re heading into technical rehearsals for the annual dance concert at UW-Whitewater, so the shop is starting to turn its attention to “The Furies.” Since classes are going on in the Hicklin, and the marley is down in the Barnett, the shop is getting a little crowded at the moment; though getting this stuff done now means once Dancescapes is struck, we can get the platforming for “Furies” in pretty quickly.

Here’s a stack of platforms, covered in masonite, waiting to be primed.

The upstage walkway was legged and braced. I asked our TD to save part of the groundrow from “The Tender Land” since I was rather proud of it. You can see hanging up there on the right.

My projects in the last few days included working on the Clytemnestra mobile. The director (Angela Ianonne) would like the dead queen to glide unnaturally about the stage, so we’ve devised this cart. A crew person will lay on his or her belly and move it with arms and feet while Clytemnestra straddles them. There, of course, is much refinement yet to be done.

We’ve also got six “shard curtains” on the set, and here you can see my prototype of broken masonite, manila line, and hot glue. It will work.

Which means forging ahead on working out the paint treatment for the shards. Four different base colors, and then three different metallic glazes. Here’s my test batch in mid-process.

Finally, a quick trip down to the costume shop to catch the students working on both Dancescapes and “The Furies” by surprise.