So we had our tech rehearsal last night. Apart from the fact that I forgot to rehearse what is perhaps our most important sound cue–never mind, we’ll get it tonight–it really went much better than I had feared. The set changes are going very well. Also, Irish playwrights love language so much that they don’t […]
The set is up, everyone. And it is PRETTY COOL. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the genius of Adam Hammond. These are the panels for the Act I set, in more or less the real configuration. We didn’t measure anything last night; we’ll nail all that down today when we have the lights. There’s […]
That Was A Flash Of Genius
Constant readers of this blog will recall that about a month ago, I posted about the fact that we were getting to work on incorporating the frame. I expressed some trepidation about the fact that we were adding something new to Wilde’s work of art, and my occasional wish that I had not decided […]
Venus Emerges
We are in the middle of another productive and enjoyable set build weekend! I have to go back and paint in about half an hour, but here are some pictures of what we did yesterday: This is the fireplace panel. Meara, our color chemist, mixed the slate blue color for the upper wall, which I […]
The Triumph of Something
We have reached the magical point in the show life cycle when the number of things about the process that I can actually control and/or do myself begins to shrink. It starts, at this point, to be more about letting other people do their thing with props or lights or sound or the set. […]