The Furies, Suds, and Arrangement for Murder, No. 2
It’s the end of the semester and we’ve got multiple shows in progress at the UW-Whitewater. Tech for “The Furies” draws closer, and last night the actors were able to rehearse in the Barnett on the platforming.
This picture is from two days ago, after Angela (the director) came up after the production meeting to take a look at it. She, Steve and I talked about a couple of the higher stack platforms and made a couple of adjustments.
I’ve continued to work on Apollo’s Navelstone. In this picture, I finally have the shape carved out of the block of foam.
And here it is yesterday afternoon after being slathered with Dan Katula’s recipe of Weld-Bond, paint, and toilet paper. It dried like concrete, which is nice, but on the other hand, a day later, there are still places where it’s not dry at all. So instead of doing some sanding and painting, I spent an hour working on the snake.
I think I came up with one of the most tedious scenic projects ever in the shard curtains. They may all be painted, but now each one needs a hole, after which they will be meticulously threaded onto heavy twine.
Yesterday we had our first production meeting for this summer’s “Suds.” I had checked in with the director, Skip Grover, on my direction, so I went ahead and presented a pretty much complete set at the meeting. Though I did forget to include the piano.
And even though “Arrangment for Murder, No. 2” is the first of the summer shows, I haven’t made as much progress on it as I have with “Suds.” Still, we have the first production meeting for that show later today, and I do have some preliminary thoughts to share.
