Urinetown (March 2008--BYU Mask Club)

Pygmalion

I don't really have a lot of pictures of this play, but I thought it was an excellent example of what you can do without a lot of resources. This production of Pygmalion was produced by a community theatre company just getting started. Their building hadn't been finished yet, so we ended up performing in the park. An interesting experience if I do say so myself, but in the end, it worked. It did rain one night, though. That was rather tragic, but we ended up just moving into the covered pavilion and moving some picnic tables. The audience seemed fine with. Anyway, this just goes to show, that you don't need an actual stage to perform on.

Parade, the musical.

This was a mask club production of the musical, Parade. Because it was a mask club, it was cut down to about forty minutes. There were several interesting things about this particular production. The first being that it had an absolutely huge cast for a mask club. This made things a bit difficult in rehearsals and in blocking. However, it turned out really well in the end. The director ended up having the chorus members on stage the entire time. They would freeze into a different picture at the beginning of each scene. These pictures were what was happening in the town during the scenes. This allowed the audience to get a bigger picture of what was happening. Not only did they have the information given them by the lines and the moving actors, but they were able to look around at the still pictures formed in each scene and see what the townspeople were thinking and feeling. Basically it gave different levels to the play. It told different stories and utilized every person in the cast.

King Lear: Children's Show

The purpose of this blog is basically what you see above you: a place to post pictures of productions and comment/discuss them. Ideas such as costume designs, set designs, lighting designs, and many other elements can all be gotten from this blog.

This was a show I participated in last semester (Winter 2007). It was a children's production of King Lear. We cut it down to about an hour (a narrator was used heavily), and used puppets and live cello music. We toured around Utah Valley all last semester. Every Tuesday and Thursday we went to a different elementary or middle school. Our set was basically a curtain for the background and two stools, one for the narrator and one for me (Lear's Fool who played the cello as well). It was a fabulous experience, and something I would highly recommend, if you ever get the chance.