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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Peer Gynt - Actor shifts and Tracking
« on: Feb 22, 2012, 12:43 pm »
Hello,
I am currently stage managing an undergraduate production of Peer Gynt. I have a cast of twenty-three. We are performing in a modified thrust theatre (proscenium that extends DS into a playing circle). All of the cast are doubling as the shift crew/costume crew. We are using a lift, orchestra pit and four trapdoors throughout the play.
There are entrances from USR/USL wings (on the proscenium), a center vom (DS off the playing circle), two USR/USL trap doors (on the proscenium), two more trap doors (in the US area of the playing circle) and a lift (CS of the playing circle).
Because the cast is also the crew, they are responsible for handling their own costume changes, keeping track of their hand props and shifting set pieces that come on and off of the lift. Does anyone know of a good way to compile a large scene shift/costume change/actor tracking/props tracking sheet (that actors can easily understand)?
I am currently stage managing an undergraduate production of Peer Gynt. I have a cast of twenty-three. We are performing in a modified thrust theatre (proscenium that extends DS into a playing circle). All of the cast are doubling as the shift crew/costume crew. We are using a lift, orchestra pit and four trapdoors throughout the play.
There are entrances from USR/USL wings (on the proscenium), a center vom (DS off the playing circle), two USR/USL trap doors (on the proscenium), two more trap doors (in the US area of the playing circle) and a lift (CS of the playing circle).
Because the cast is also the crew, they are responsible for handling their own costume changes, keeping track of their hand props and shifting set pieces that come on and off of the lift. Does anyone know of a good way to compile a large scene shift/costume change/actor tracking/props tracking sheet (that actors can easily understand)?