UW Whitewater Theatre/Dance Department

It’s a rather light week in the shop. With the structure of the set accommodating both of the summer plays, it’s mainly just repainting things and installing some specialty items.

One side of the rotating flats will be used in the bar and gymnasium. Those were easy to paint, and here are the center panels, installed.

The other side is a sky filled with clouds. We painted those on Friday. I painted these two to solidify the technique I wanted to use:

Then it was Lilliana’s turn. It was her first time painting clouds:

Here’s Katie working on one of the fence sections, while Nathan’s in the back there, grinding something down:

Here are Nathan, Katie, and Alex installing one of the cloud panels this morning:

And then Katie supervising Alex and Nathan on trimming excess muslin from the center panels:

A bit later, Katie paints the base of the rebuilt bar table:

And here’s her to-do list from Friday:

And now we start in on converting the set to “Rounding Third.”

Here’s Alex recovering one of the flip panels:

And Nathan rebuilding the frame for one of the panels that didn’t quite survive strike in one piece:

Katie’s to-do list:

Lilliana mixes paint:

I repaint the deck:

Alex seals the deck:

Katie paints the flip panels sky blue:

Well, “Poe Times Two” went up and came down. Here are some photos from the final dress rehearsal. Not many of my photos turned out due to the low light levels and moving actors, but here are the ones that are pretty decent.

Adapted from Edgar Allen Poe by Greg Oliver Bodine. Directed by Angela Iannone, with Ethan Wakefield in The Cask of Amontillado and Nathan Broege in The Black Cat. Scenery by Eric Appleton, lighting by Quinn Bauer, costumes by Tracey Lyons, sound design by Alex Carey, stage managed by Abrya Scheeberg, and technical direction by Katie Gundlach.

Set up for Act One, under worklights:

The Cask of Amontillado:

Intermission, with The Black Cat set up:

The Black Cat: