The plays for the spring of 1995 were fine but poorly
planned and advertised.
Our two productions were Antigone and Another
Antigone, yes the same show I worked on just a few months before.
Now you would think that would be an obvious PR opportunity
and we could get some good and free press and a bigger audience.
You could think that but you would be wrong.
PR has never been our strong point and there have been many
missed chances over the years.
Every once in a blue moon we do get some good press but it
really has increased our audience numbers to our regular shows.
Musicals have always done better.
First mistake, Antigone was done as a traditional
Greek Tragedy complete with period dress and in masks.
Great for teaching acting students, bad for drawing any
audience.
We had a student designer who did a great job and the set
looked fine.
The faculty scene designer did the lighting for the
production.
The play was well done, looked good and even smelled good as
they burned some incense onstage before each show.
I do not know how we came to do Another Antigone that
season as it replaced another play that had been previously been selected.
The set was designed by another student and she did a fine
job but it did not have the magic of the production I had worked on the
previous summer in Connecticut.
It was not the students fault as she just gave the director
what he wanted.
The setting was a literal interpretation of the functional
requirements of the script.
The set had a turntable with two small box sets along with
two curved brick benches, one on each side of the stage, that were used for
several outdoor scenes.
Surprise! Yes we still have the two brick benches and they
have been reused several times over the past twenty-four years.
I think we have an office desk that was made for the show as
well.
The production was fine, not good, not bad just Okay.
I can not find photos of this play at this time.
There was much more going on at the college outside of these
two plays that would bring major changes to our department over the next few
months.
Big changes ahead . . . .
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