Tech Week

I'm very unclear why I haven't written an entry in two weeks...other than, it seems that bringing this play to performance level is taking a whole lot of time.  The shadow work has been difficult, but I think we are finally getting it under control.  It was clear, about the middle of last week, that our projectors, standard issue classroom overhead projectors, weren't adequate.  The projections of kids in shadow were fine, but once we added titles and some color transparencies for art work, it was clear that a major component of our show wasn't going to be up to a performance standard. So, I did what any director would do.  I woke up at 3 AM and knew, I had to get better projectors.  And I did.  I got some that were rated at 4000 lumens.  The other ones we had were something like 1200.  And the difference was staggering.  This caused me to add much much more shadow imagery to our show, which overburdened our shadow projectionists for a couple of days, but it seems undercontrol now and I think will be a cool part of the show.

      Costumes and scenery have come together as well:  take a look at the sets: and the two artists that created them (my wife, laura and daughter, carmen).
We have continued meandering to a conclusion to our story and just a week ago the ensemble and I finally arrived at what feels like an ending.
Now we have two more rehearsals (3 hours tomorrow and 7 hours on wed.) before our shows.