Coffee with a colleague, talkin' set design - his, mine, every show we've seen lately's, and the scenery for the Andrew Lloyd Weber sequel Love Never Dies on DVD. Lots of fun. Plus a demonstration of the very cool Bamboo drawing tablet. I think I know now what I want for Christmas. (Okay, and for birthday and Presidents' Day and...)
After that, I stickem-ed the last of the tacky (in every possible sense!) floor tiles to the stage for The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Other brave and sticky volunteers started the job Sunday - until we ran out of tiles. We're protecting the actual stage floor with an intervening layer of tar paper, stapled down, in hopes of easy removal. But the sticking down is the stickiest thing you can imagine! Sticky hands, sticky hair, sticky to the paper backing, sticky to the floor, to everything! Wash-up includes slathering hands with WD40, then lots of soap and water. Repeat. Maybe a couple times.
Sketch by Clare Floyd DeVries, copyright, right?
This sketch was made during the designers' run the other night.
I've started sketching during runs like this; it took me a while to figure out why exactly. I think it's partly to document progress and partly a sort of shyness. In the brightly lit theater under house lights and in the sparse audience of a designers' run (4-5 people!) it lets me feel less on-display myself and gives me a little distance from the show (like adjusting the volume). Because a play can be too powerful for comfort sometimes, undiluted by the rest of the audience and unprotected by the darkness of the auditorium.
At least for me.
But then, I never sit in the front row for a show either, for similar reasons.
The Beauty Queen of Leenane - even under house lights - is a powerful play.
You can see my earlier sketch of what this set will (I hope) eventually look like HERE and the latest progress photo (and the tacky tile!) right here:
The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Kitchen Dog Theater, week 2 progress - photo by Mike Wang
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