Welcome to Thursday Tech Time, a post dedicated to recounting the magnificent and further enlightening hour I spent today with Brad Cooreman, once again, in order to attempt to perform the responsibilities that I now hold as Production Manager for the Student Directed One-Act Plays. This hour, out of anything else, mainly focused on marking out the space that would function as an outline for the stage upon which the One-Acts would be performed. Now, for the most part, all I really did was hold measuring tapes and help Brad tape down the outline of the stage (something which, someway, somehow, I managed to perform sub-par). However, the one thing that could truly be garnered from this experience, something that I had also realized last Saturday when attending See How We Are, is that the true art of theater comes from being able to overcome obstacles of all sorts of varieties.
In staging all of the productions of Bac A Dos, it seems, the over-sized black box theater has one major flaw out of anything else. Two support beams running right through the space, about ten feet above the ground, creating a line perpendicular to the length of the Arts Pavillion itself. For now, I'm not quite sure what exactly Brad came up with as to a solution to this bar for the One-Acts, but I do know that it, in itself, proved itself to both threaten the sight lines of the audience and the lighting design team's ability to light the stage, as the bars themselves would create shadows upon the stage itself. I'm anxious to see how Bac A Dos will get around this in the coming years, but I'm sure that, as soon as Brad figures it out once, the rest of the productions will find some way around it with relative ease.
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