Three Excellent Cows and Radium Girls
We’re in tech for “Three Excellent Cows,” and strangely enough, much of the platforming for “Radium Girls” has already been constructed, at least, all the appropriate sized platforms have been built with coffin locks and are ready to go. That set has to be portable for two reasons — first, we’re hosting the Wisconsin High School Festival next month, and the set has to vanish from the stage for three days, and second, it’s our submission to this year’s KCACTF conference, and even if we won’t know if it’s chosen to go until the beginning of December, we have to build it with the hopeful assumption that yes, it will have to tour.
Here’s “Three Excellent Cows” stage manager Emily posing with the goldfish. She’s the one who suggested soap casting, And dang if it didn’t work great.
While I was working on the fish in the costume shop, I snapped a pic of student costume designer Stephanie Ruch and Intro student Alex working on costume details for tonight’s dress rehearsal.
Upstairs, some of the Intro students work on portable masking flats to go with “Cows” as it tours. That’s the wheatfield groundrow in front of them.
Here are the flats from one side of the stage. I was attempting to channel “Click, Clack, Moo” on this show.
In the shop, small angled platforms are being built to connect access platforming to the main playing space.
