This week (2nd - 6th April) was a dull week class wise.
But me and Georgia were working back stage for the school production also!
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| New Spotlight! |
Tuesday was the day. First day of the school production, everyone stressed and pulling their hair out. We had to be back at school at 5:30PM so that gave us no time at all to do anything but go head get dressed in the crucial backstage black. Before the show whilst Georgia was helping out with make-up I was going through the action plan of the entire play making sure props were in place, the scene was in the right position for the beginning of the play and covering up any areas that were letting light into the hall. Then it began our first show. Georgia and I were sitting backstage (with two other crew members) following the script closely for scene changes and props needed. All went swimmingly except one scene change where the lighting crew didn't put the lights down but it was easily rectified for the next show. Also the new spotlight the school now have is pretty bad-ass it can strobe light, has a vast array of built in colours and its just damn cool. One problem it is MEGA loud (due to two fans keeping it cool). But at least we have one.
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| Bad-ass Make-up |
Wednesday was a long day which started at 8:30 in the morning (normal school with a 2 hour Theatre class) which finished at around 10:30PM due to there being 2 shows. Both went very well, the afternoon one was slightly harder since we had to be 100% sure no light from backstage would pour onto stage but other than that both went really well, and just look at out fancy make-up for the backstage crew!!
Thursday was the last night and the last show. We were all pumped and ready to go since it was the very last one. It went 100% perfect, nothing went wrong and I felt really proud of what the team had managed within 2/3 weeks, sure there were problems backstage (in the sense of forgotten cues by the Orchestra, and some ill actors) but on our part (e.g props and doors) all went well. At the very end the whole crew came on stage, jazz hands and took a bow and it was a really good moment being able to see things you've done come into place (even if we were mean to the kids telling them to be quiet!). Also over the 4 shows Maria, Georgia and Spencer all collected for Theatre Versus Oppression raising around 170 euros in total (give or take). So congrats to you guys too!
As for the lesson side of Theatre we've all been pretty much plodding along with it slowly making progress, I managed to get a rather large chunk of it done just leaving me with influence part of my blog to do and of course check up and polish out areas. Overall this week had been pretty fun in my eyes, since I got to experience a new role that I hadn't done before in theatre which was Stage Manager. It's a pretty stressful job but when it all comes together, it really gives you a sense of achievement! Also whenever everyone is on stage we got up to so much fun, the dance moves I was breaking out! Should've seen them!!!
Thats it for this week but I'll leave you with a picture of Me and the Backstage Crew (well most of us anyway!!)
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| Me and Some of the Crew
EDIT (11th April) : As of Today, I have now finished my Set Design Investigation into two separate Scenographers - http://ibdesignersproject.wordpress.com/
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