A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Last night was the invited dress for the Optimists’ “A Midsummer Night Dream,” in Milwaukee’s Kadish Park. Once again, a technical challenge to get as much as you can out of a little as you have. The lighting consists of 20 1.2 k dimmers (would have been 24, but one of the borrowed packs didn’t work — ) borrowed from Quasimondo, 4 fresnels borrowed from In Tandem, 4 fresnels borrowed from Bo Johnson, 6 36 degree Source Fours and 6 floods borrowed from the UW-Whitewater, a Microvision borrowed from Steve traut, 3 strings of lights borrowed from Jason Fassl, and some home/garden floods bought from the hardware store.
Here’s the crew setting up last night. Since it’s in the park and totally open to whomever wanders through, everything that’s not in the air has to get struck at the end of every night. Which means it all has to get set back up before the show. . .
This is the booth:
Since the set designer teaches at Wisconsin Lutheran (which is also where the company rehearses), most of the crew are students there.
Here’s what it looks like, all set up, from atop the hill heading toward the bathrooms:
Here we are at the start of the show:
And as the evening progresses, we end up here:
