Scene It!

For the past year and a half, I have been helping out here and there on the paints crew for shows by Staples Players in Westport.

Shows include "Guys and Dolls," "Little Shop of Horrors," "Rent," and "Curtains."

This time the show is "Brighton Beach Memoirs," written by Neil Simon. The image above is me wallpapering. I've never done it before, so this was certainly a learning experience. The below image shows the type of wallpaper we used - anaglypta, a very cool textured kind of paper.

 

It's going to get painted another color. Below is some other parts of the set. It looks a hot mess right now, but it's going to be pretty cool once the set is done. The dummy on the couch was used in the production of "Curtains", and the students have named him Harold. 

 It's so funny how much in theater is faked - the "hardwood flooring" you see above is actually luan strips painted with two kinds of brown and then sealed. It's a very different kind of painting (and often uses many different mediums) than your traditional fine art painting, but it's fun to see how all the pieces fit together.