UW Whitewater Theatre/Dance Department

Working up a rendering of “On the Verge” today:

Today, working on the portable pieces of “On the Verge.” The director, Angela Iannone, would like the pieces to be made of cardboard — heightened artificiality, the sense of it as a prop — and they need to come on and off easily, through the portals on either side of the stage, and carried by, at most, a single actor.

Here are sketches for the palanquin and the Esso pump:

Another day working on ‘On the Verge” drawings. Finished drafting the header and spent some time working up a contour mapped model of the sandpile feature:

I believe all the plates of drafting are now done. Have to double check things, do some prop drawings, and then next week, scan it all.

The Fall semester is fast approaching. I discovered as I was working up the Sketchup model of “On the Verge” that I had failed to take into account the 9″ clearance required for the wall mirror covers along one wall of the theatre, and am now in the process of redrafting the show. Here’s the elevation on the drafting table:

Steve Chene, our department’s technical director for many, many years, retired this year, so this Fall we will be welcoming Ruth Conrad-Proulx as our new TD! I told her I would turn over a complete set of drawings for Verge next week, so I must draft, draft, draft away. . .