Category: scenic design
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It’s all politics
Farragut North at RLTP gets underway. Load-in this week. Painting on Saturday. #RLTP1516 #whitemodel Save
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Freud’s Last Session: NYtheatreguide review
http://nytheatreguide.com/2016/01/theatre-review-freuds-last-session-at-road-less-traveled-theatre/
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Artistic Academic April
I’d like to attempt to update this more frequently, but if once a month or so with current projects is the norm, strides in the right direction. April. In four hours it will be May. April has been a whirlwind. Multiple shows. Multiple students. Multiple brains. Every day I was…
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Drawing by the Scalerule
Initial design ideas for RLTP’s Water by the Spoonful are underway. Inspired by the minimalist work of Appia and Meilziner, and the geometry of modern architectural gardens, I’m exploring the worlds of evocative spaces that serve multi-functions. All amidst a contemplative week of death and birth(days). Enjoying the quiet of…
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2 + 2 + 1 + 1….. is…
A week, a week. All in a week. Death of a Salesman opens at Irish Classical. I painted two floors for a second time. One with a former student, one with a team of current students. One floor needs to be repainted, again. One floor will never be seen again.…
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Checkerboards and lighting boards
I find a fair amount of duality in my world recently. It seems the nature of the game is two things going on at once. Or two apposing forces. Or two modes of thinking. A choice to make, a place to be. There can be only one. Choose wisely. Last…
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Fridge. Furniture. Fitch. Wilson. Fire.
Drafts completed. White model completed. Build and rehearsals began this week for Death of Salesman. On the hunt for fridge and furniture. Mentoring students on the Doug Fitch Project. Attending a rare speaking appearance by Robert Wilson. Communing with the woods and fire for a Friday evening. Striking Deathtrap on…
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It’s a trap
Tech weekend for Deathtrap is winding down this evening. Last for the night: first time actors will use blood in fight call. Set Designer concerns: blood on the carpet. Thunder, lightning, fire and brimstone. Ok, maybe not the brimstone, but weapons. A lot of weapons. And books. There’s never enough…
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Faux paint call
Faux wood grain, faux wood grain, and oh, how about some more faux wood grain. A week of scene painting leads into a week of furniture load- in and set dressing. Looking forward to teching Deathtrap this weekend with RLTP.
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Design is fashion is theatre is design.
School’s out for summer. It’s hard not to run Alice Cooper on repeat in my brain. Another semester down of teaching aspiring college minds my love of design. Theatre design. Production design. Graphic design. Art design. Design design. I also had a guest spot in helping another college roll out…
Dyan Burlingame 