A Place with the Pigs
We opened Athol Fugard’s “A Place with the Pigs” (directed by Bruce Cohen) this past Tuesday, and closed it this past Saturday. The run went smoothly, and congrats to everyone on the production team!
First a few pics from technical rehearsals. This is my office computer as I work on the projection images and the log. Our two student projection programmers, Trevor and Natalie, worked valiantly on getting everything into the system right up to opening.
Here’s Natalie at her station behind the cyclorama stage right:
And Trevor at his station stage left:
This is the set under work lights; the three projection screens, with one of the three guard towers housing the projectors visible upstage right:
This next image is from the first night of tech. We decided afterward to turn all of the projectors on their sides to maximize the image size, which meant that I had to re-edit and re-orient all of the images. We were working with the projectors that were available from the university AV department, so the we were a bit constrained with what size of image they would project. Unfortunately, with only about three and a half weeks to put the whole show together the tech that was available on campus was the tech we had to go with. Since the selection of the play came late in the summer due to COVID and casting considerations, there wasn’t must prep time — still, for the amount of time we had, we came pretty darned far!
Here’s student stage manager Abigail during tech. We’re somewhere in the “A Midnight Walk” scene.
This photo is from the last night of tech, during the “Orders from the Commissar” scene.
And finally, student Sam Hess (also the co-lighting designer) took photos for our publicity department at final dress. Here’s one of his shots, also from the “Orders from the Commissar” scene:
This week, we start putting “She Kills Monsters” together in the shop, with rehearsals starting tomorrow night.