The Royal Family images
The action takes place in the Manhattan apartment of the Cavendishes, America's Royal Family of the Theater: Fanny, her daughter Julie and son Tony, Julie's daughter Gwen. It's a simple set in having almost no moving parts (a relief for those who helped put up Something's Afoot a few months ago), but it's packed full of theater stuff: posters, prop furniture, musical instruments and so forth.
In this little selection of images, click any picture to see it in full size, usually with comments. You can loop through the images without returning to this page if you like.
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| The ground plan drawing has the entrances and other features identified. It's informative if you are used to reading plans. | Here is an image of the model I built, with Scaleboy® and Scalemaid® doing their usual service. Hmm, this got squashed, didn't it.... |
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| Another model photo shows a sightline experiment. | Of course rehearsals were under way before we stood up any sticks. |
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| Just one weekend's work produced this astonishing result. | It wouldn't make any sense to erect the levels without steps to ascend, would it? This is the highly unfinished form of the grand stairway. |
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| Rehearsals can be so distracting when you are trying to focus on set construction.... | Here's a view of the set on May 4. |
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| That fake Down Right wall seems to be working well. | The grand stairway is done too. |
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| The weekend of May 10-11 was all about stencils. This is the motif we applied. (No enlargement of the image) | The "worst" view from seat A18 is actually not so bad. |
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| Skilled artists applied that stencil pattern some hundreds of times. | We finished painting on May 18.... |
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| ...then filled it with people on the 19th. | Aubrey watches over the Royal Family. |
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| A pre-performance view of the set | The cast and crew portrait |
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| The party monkey | |
| Approved Ben Teague web site |
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