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Quite a story here. Director Cat, who used to belong to the Drama Department staff, is blessed with nerves of steel. She doesn't mind asking anybody for anything. And when she asked Don, a professor of design and stagecraft, he said OK, he'd create a set for the show.
But it had to use an 18-foot turntable (also called "revolve"). To be fair, George Bernard Shaw's play is in five acts, each in a different locale, so changing sets by bringing in pieces and striking others would have just been a nightmare. And Don knew where to find the turntable. You can see some of the details in the pages that follow.
Cat pulled the old switcheroo on me, promoting me from carpenter to technical director a few weeks before the production got under way. That meant I was "in charge of" set design and construction, lighting, sound, props and costumes. You can be in charge of a lot of stuff without having much leverage to change it. . . .
It turned out to be a fine process. Don's a pro, of course; the costumer has a lot of experience and skill as well as a great network of friends; the sound designer has credits in both live theater and radio; and the lighting designer, doing his first show with Town & Gown, has a good eye and elastic work hours. So the technical parts of the show went reasonably smoothly. Most of the glitches were the kind you can remember as learning experiences later, and only one involved an emergency room visit.
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