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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / VENUES: Shakespeare Outdoors
« on: Nov 27, 2010, 11:53 am »
Hi there, I'm looking for some advice from people please.
I'm currently working on producing Shakespeare's Henry V for summer 2011.
The venue is an open-air location. It is a sea-front fort in the UK. We intend to be performing the show in the courtyard and using the various staircases/balconies for performance too.
Our actors will have one room to use as green room/dressing rooms. The entrance to which is at the back of the "performance area" and has stairs leadin down.
The audience themselves will be seated in the courtyard but seated in the traditional auditorium style (i.e. 10 rows of 20 seats facing the "performance area" with an aisle in the middle).
I'd be interested in any ideas people might have as to problems I may run into managing the show. As we will be performing in daylight we won't have any lighting systems and we will be having live sound. So we've no electrics that can go wrong. In fact the only comms that we should need are between props, costume, FoH and myself.
Any ideas on things problems we might run into?
I'm currently working on producing Shakespeare's Henry V for summer 2011.
The venue is an open-air location. It is a sea-front fort in the UK. We intend to be performing the show in the courtyard and using the various staircases/balconies for performance too.
Our actors will have one room to use as green room/dressing rooms. The entrance to which is at the back of the "performance area" and has stairs leadin down.
The audience themselves will be seated in the courtyard but seated in the traditional auditorium style (i.e. 10 rows of 20 seats facing the "performance area" with an aisle in the middle).
I'd be interested in any ideas people might have as to problems I may run into managing the show. As we will be performing in daylight we won't have any lighting systems and we will be having live sound. So we've no electrics that can go wrong. In fact the only comms that we should need are between props, costume, FoH and myself.
Any ideas on things problems we might run into?