UW Whitewater Theatre/Dance Department

Some more pics from yesterday’s shop session!

Two of the Intro to Tech students creating a jig in order to cut long angles in order to splice 1x into super long pieces for the very tall walls:

Painting the championship boards Puma Purple!

Intro to Tech students Megan and Kolten legging up the judge’s platform:

Me, making progress a Bee Flat!

TA Katie working with Natalie on one of those extra-long pieces of 1x:

This past Friday I got very close to finishing the floor for “Putnam County.” This afternoon, I will finish the last few lines and free throw marks, and we can go ahead and seal it.

Yesterday, as more flats got built and primed in the shop, I forged ahead on planking out the gym floor for “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.” He’s a pic of it near the end of the day:

On Thursday, I plan to lay out and paint the basketball court lines, and then on Friday seal the whole thing.

Meanwhile, a box arrived in mail containing my complementary copies of the book Tracey and I wrote last year!

Shop stuff is happening! Here are some slightly blurry photos of ‘Putnam County’ construction activity!

Here, TA Katie works with Peyton and Grace on covering flats with muslin:

While two other students build flats:

Here’s Katie showing one of the Intro students how to use the band saw:

And Kolten and Peyton priming flats:

While this was happening, I was in the theatre spattering and then lining the floor:

This past Friday, student Mariah and I worked on basing the floor for “Putnam County.” We got much further than I expected, considering we had only an hour and a half. This afternoon, I expect to begin doing some lining, though I need to leave early to hit the trophy stores before they all close. . . .

Classes have resumed, though the shops don’t officially open until Monday. On the other hand, “Putnam County” has been in rehearsal for about two weeks already and I’m heading down to start painting the floor this afternoon.

Here is a photo of the paint elevation for one of the walls:

“Animal Farm” is also in rehearsals, since there is a semester long seminar attached to the production. I’m working up the groundplan this week, as well. Here’s a Sketchup model that roughs in all the basic spatial relationships:

And then a shot of the drafting table with the half-completed groundplan and preliminary sketch: