Tag: set design
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When realism made everything unrealistic.
When does trying to be real backfire and become realistic? I guess this is the journey I’ve been on in the theatre these past seven years. I started out as a director trying to make everything on stage seem as realistic as possible. I remember the first play I wrote, we figured out how to…
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Stage Painting: Day 2 (4 days till showtime!)
After backbreaking painting the day before, we (and I still mean all the real artists who know what they are doing) finished our stage for Boardwalk Melody: An Original Musical. Here’s what we did: This is where we finished the day before. A light brown paint over the boardwalk. Then came texture on the boards.…
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Stage Painting: Day 1
Well, I got a crazy idea (and now my back is scolding me for it). Let’s paint the stage for our new show “Boardwalk Melody.” After all, it needs to have a boardwalk, right? So today we started painting and designing it. Now I must say, I take no artistic credit for anything we are…
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Ever Try a Readers’ Theatre?
I have now been part of two Readers’ Theatre Productions. What’s a Readers’ Theatre? It is as it sounds. The actors have scripts in their hands and read the play aloud, using vocal inflections and limited movement to replicate the emotion of a dramatic production. Or at least that’s how most Readers’ Theatres are described.…
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Boardwalk Melody: A Musical – Coming May 2014
Busy, busy, busy at work on our new musical set to hit the stage for the first time ever in May 2014 at the Penang Performing Arts Centre. Here are a couple behind the scene shots of my students hard at work, producing the set. This will eventually be the signboard for Summersville Tours –…
Author Mark W Sasse 