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At right you see the onstage stairs. They are extremely sturdy even though built from 3/4 inch plywood. They will be a focus of the action in this seven-door farce, with people running up and down, making brief tableaux and so forth.
I admit I'm feeling a little cocky over fitting seven doors onto our stage without one of those "corridor chase" effects.
The way the geometry worked out, we can use stock flats for only one of the nine walls (7 doors + 1 window + 1 blank wall). Everything else is nonstandard in overall width and door placement, so it all has to be built from scratch. Speedy and John and I brought in a truckload of lumber; we bought all the lauan plywood in stock at Lowe's, so I have to go back for more. The door unit at left is similar to the seven. It's a Hollywood-style flat, built sort of like a box with the lauan bottom facing out. This construction goes together quickly and pulls into square better than "flat" flats do. The shutters that hang in these units are regular lauan doors, 30 inches wide in this instance, with the full panoply of hardware.
On our second weekend we should finish framing all units, face the ones that don't yet have faces, stand 'em up, install the shutters and hardware, and begin painting. Good progress so far, knock wood.
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