Seeking set desigers / builders / painters /stage manager /costume person / tea lady

Hi people, A lad in sane productions forthcoming production at the Phoenix Theatre is not too far way. June 24th opening to be exact. At this point in time, we don't have a stage Manager, set designer, prop builders,set painters...in fact, we're still 3 short of cast members. Not to worry! Buddha will provide, or so my 'lettuce and spiced omelette' friend assures me. Now call me cynical, but being my letters to Santa, and Buddha are coming back with a 'No longer at this address' stamp, I thought it best, not to wait and see if Buddha does in fact provide. Rather, I'd best go off and seek...and so here I am seeking...even just your advice would be appreciated. This gig may prove enticing to those of you who like a challenge, the main challenge is we have to create a set within a very short lead time. How short? Think of 'Dopey' or Sneezy' and you'd be close. What are we creating? A TV studio...that changes to a lounge room, and then back to a studio, and then an Irish pub..see, easy....well it would be easy if I found making sets as easy as writing frivolous plays with no essential meaning. On a serious note, anyone who'd be kind enough to offer input, props (I can supply a list), we'd be most grateful, we'll even reward you with tickets to the show, so you can admire your handiwork. cheers

Johnny Grim

A lad in sane productions

johnnygrim@optusnet.com.au

0430889 789

Two words: unit set....by which I mean a basic setting that gets appropriate things such as furniture and pictures/wall hangings added to it (or taken away) thus denoting the change of scene. or No set at all, at all (said with bad Irish accent). Forget building walls altogether, chuck naturalism out the window. Concentrate on one or two items that as soon as the audience see them...they know exactly where they are. For the TV studio it's obviously something resembling a camera, maybe a light two on a stand. For the living room it's a lounge suite. For the pub a bar (on lockable wheels for ease of set change). Depending on the time between each scene throw in a big thing to hang on the back wall; for the TV studio the TV station's logo, for the lounge a suitable picture, for the pub a beer advert. Just thoughts, use or lose you think best ;)

"Life is too short to stuff a mushroom"

Two words

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