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Re: Outdoor Theatre Advice / Much Ado About Nothing- In the Park
« Reply #15 on: Jun 29, 2006, 12:30 am »
I did hear a story that a year or two ago during the run of a show a duck started following the cast around on stage and doing entrances/exits with the cast and after the final strike tried to follow the director and some cast members to their cars, quacking the entire time :)   

See! Those are the great little stories I miss out on, doing indoor theatre...  I've never had barnyard animals chase my actors...  :P         

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Re: Outdoor Theatre Advice / Much Ado About Nothing- In the Park
« Reply #16 on: Jun 29, 2006, 01:37 am »
You should also be aware of what plant life is around the space.  While working in outdoor theatre one spring, my director and some of the cast found their way into some poison ivy and poison oak.  They quickly realized what they had gotten into, so it wasn't as severe as it could have been (no hospitalization), but it was rather unpleasant.  Calamine lotion/hydrocortizone cream seemed to do the trick in that instance. 

We never had ducks or other wild life grace our stage and chase the actors, but we did have a frisbee land in the middle of the stage during a performance of The Winter's Tale.  The theatre was quite close to a "hole" for my university's Ultimate Frisbee course and people would play through in the middle of performances.  My particular favorite frisbee moment, though, was when they hit our lighting professor with the frisbee.  He had quite an interesting confrontation with the frisbee team leader.  The lighting crew and I almost died of laughter. 

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Re: Outdoor Theatre Advice / Much Ado About Nothing- In the Park
« Reply #17 on: Jun 29, 2006, 12:56 pm »
This may be slightly off topic, but when I was doing a Shakespeare Festival last summer, there were two major hospitals within sight and an airport not too far away. Unfortunately there really wasn't anything we could do to stop the medic helicopters and occasional jet that went over.  I felt bad for the actors were trying to project over a low flying 747 one night. Talk about distracting!  On the plus side, if anyone had been hurt (no one was)  we practically could have walked to the hospital. 

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Re: Outdoor Theatre - Basic Information
« Reply #18 on: Jun 29, 2006, 11:52 pm »
Please note I found an older topic discussing some "how-tos" of outdoor theatre and have merged these two topics together.
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VENUES: Outdoor Venues
« Reply #19 on: Oct 06, 2006, 04:59 pm »
Hi,

so I know this was in an old post, but I am unable to find it. So here is my question:

I need to know how the props checklist works for outdoor venues so that you only have to have one checklist and it doesn't get rained on and all that jazz. Specifically the use of a permanent marker on the clear sheet protectors. I remember there being a way to erase the permanent marker but I don't remember by what method. At least I think that is what the post said. If anyone knows vaguely what I'm talking about and can offer any help, that would be great!

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Re: Outdoor Venues
« Reply #20 on: Oct 06, 2006, 05:03 pm »
well, to erase perninant marker from plastic use rubbing alcohol (91% is the best)

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Re: Outdoor Venues
« Reply #21 on: Oct 08, 2006, 09:25 am »
There is a big thread about working in outdoor venues that you can find here:

http://smnetwork.org/forum/index.php?topic=1022.0
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