Directed By: Suzanne Sturn
Scene Designer: Drew Francis
Costume Designer: Madeline Huggins
Lighting Designer: Gary Thomas Musante
Stamping, Shouting & Singing Home was a collection of three
one-act plays written by women.
The three plays were acted on a unit set that was a large
raked stage that had translucent panels flown in for each play.
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The plays were: A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell
also known as Trifles, A Chat with Mrs. Chicky by Evelyn and
Stamping, Shouting & Singing Home by Lisa Evans.
Links to more information about the plays:
The stage floor was covered with many lauan ply planks that
made a large parquet pattern on it.
It was very time consuming but looked great when it was
done.
The flooring for the just completed The Cripple of Insihmaan
might have been more complex and certainly took many more staples to finish and
when done it took two days to remove them all.
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| The Cripple of Inishmaan, 2014 |
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| Taking out the staples. |
The large panels were simple and covered with a spun mesh
fabric that was very expensive had to be shipped in from Germany.
With some changes we re-used the panels again the following year for A Christmas Carol.
We got the material from Rosco but the closest thing to it that I could find today comes from
Rose Brand.
So what do I remember most about this production?
The actors, crew or plays themselves?
Nope, something else.
When we came in one morning we found that the main stage
curtain had fallen down on the stage.
It appears that the tie lines had rotted away over the years
and one finally broke and the slight shift in weight snapped others and started
a cascade of broken ties and the whole thing fell down.
As the curtain fell it ripped itself apart and we had to buy
a new one.
Few people would miss the old purple curtain.
Fortunately the only other item that was a damaged was a golf
club that had been leaning against the proscenium.
What it was doing there I do not know, it was just a toy
that someone had been playing with most likely hitting tape balls around the
theatre.
