Seeking set / prop guru to assist with December production

If this is at Phoenix? Utalise the OP & PS aprons, as seperate satelite stages. This could take care of your coffee shop & lounges, with the main apron for the fishing jetty. Using the cyc to depict the beach & tab track in a back drop for the garden. Or use the tab track as a traveler depicting shops. The cyc could even double for the garden, also use a profiled tree boarder or legs as a garden portal. Multi set it would be as simple as bioling water in a paper bag, without not much swet only slight perspiration.

With the tab track you could also set up [periaktoi] medici flats using jogger flats which could be tracked in, then be worked & turned to suit. Which could  be done at other venues of course!

good idea Joanna [repunzal] I like the suggestion of the cartoon effect projection. However I'm sure you would know, as is the cases with most ameatre venues, they have little or no upstage or over head space to play with. Even rear projection by bouncing it off a mirror on to a scrim & increasing the image by upto 1:15 times is not always viable. But as always there are ways to fit the complex into the simplex, as with the wine bladder in a carton of cheateau cardbord. There is always the use of gobo's [Fergo] that can enhance as well, which may be an option Jonny might want to explore? But because of the 'daffodil bloke' [achitect] who renovated the venue, of course he ensured the ceiling was left in over the stage & reduced the staging area - All for the sake of asthetics,but that'sl another story!  

Achytex! Don't get me started, there was a whole thread a while ago - bless thier wooden sox 'n heads.

We used to be able to get used printers offset plates & make up great gobo's, but sadly they are now made of paper. But any sort of thin  sheet metal works well.

I can remember making up glass ones when I was a kid, ok there were a bit fuzzy on the image edges but they did produce pasable projected images.

With the offsets plates I'd draw or find an image on paper, then trace it on to the plate using carbon paper. Then carefully cut it out using a craft knife or scalple, cut the plate to suit the profiles gate size & we had a workable gobo. Sure fine images whould burn out quickly but they cost next to nothing. I have not found anything similar or as good as offset plates as yet? - so I  like you resort to producing breakup gobo's out of  bits of tin, in the old fashion way. 

Of course using computer images on mylar as Fergo's in the Selecon Pacific Lanterns or hiring in computer generated 'Proimage' projection lighting is the way to go now. But I still like messing about with a gobo on occasions.

There kits avaliable to make your own gobo's, but I never ventured that far, from all acounts they are quite cheap & easy to produce.