Archive for July 1st, 2015

Suds and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Posted in Lighting Design, Scenic Design on July 1st, 2015 by Eric Appleton

On my way in to Milwaukee yestderday, I stopped at the shop both to rummage for some unistrut hardware and to see how construction on “Suds’ was going. Our TD, Steve, and the students have made excellent progress.

Here’s Quinn working on the laundry tables:

And Alison continues painting everything pretty much single-handedly:

How things look from the booth:

And then, on to Kadish Park for Shakespeare in the Park. Bo and I spent about forty five minutes trying to figure out why the dimmers weren’t talking to the board. Turned out we needed the five pin to three pin adapter that was concealed in a compartment in the road case (even though the manual said the board could speak directly through 3 pin, and there were two three pin ports on the back of the board).

I then complained about the board in Facebook, and an old acquaintance at ETC said he had a personal Microvision in his garage that might still be working and he’d be willing to lend it to us. He’s going to check it out tonight, and who knows? Tomorrow we might have a Microvision and won’t have to run the show the old fashioned way. . .

And here’s a shot of the theatre at the end of the evening’s run, under a full moon.