UW Whitewater Theatre/Dance Department

At the drafting table, today, working on the over stage plate for the upcoming Milwaukee Chamber Theatre production of “Boeing Boeing.” With the set pushed hard against the proscenium, with steps and platforming, with a ceiling overhang, it’s next to impossible to move the lift around the stage for focus, so I have to position on-stage things where we can get to them, or readily bounce focus them. Adding to this is the multiple upstage rooms — not much action in them, just people rushing in and out, but they still have to be part of the picture, that means I’m also trying to figure out what units can be mounted where to best effect. This play doesn’t look like much, but it’s been pretty darned complicated to figure out. . .