"Servant of Two Masters"

Hello again…I hope coming back to reality from spring break hasn’t been as hard on everyone! At the theatre we all took a break as well, but now that we came back we are in a rush to get everything done for our next show. The next play is called “Servant of Two Masters” and it opens in three weeks. We had already started on everything and the cast has started rehearsals before spring break, but now that we’re back we realized how much we are missing and so we need to speed things up. The cast rehearses everyday, as always, but I haven’t heard much of what the play is about. The only thing I know is that it takes place in Venice, and that is because we are drawing and painting Venice in a huge drop for the scenery. There are three huge drops with different sceneries that we scenic painters have had to grid, draw and go over in permanent maker. This took us about two weeks, but now we have to experiment with the fabric paint and see how we can paint the drops without the dripping, bleeding or mixing because that can’t be fixed. We are all a little clueless and nervous, even our boss, Steve Gilliam, because he has not done this before either. However, yesterday I started painting and it is turning out well, so we all can take a breath. We still have to figure out how to paint in the little details of each of the three drops, and that may be another difficulty, but we’ll take it one step at a time. Hopefully it turns out well and we finish the drops in time!


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If you attended one of the many times “Blood Wedding” played, you will probably agree with me when I say that it was absolutely amazing. It was a tragedy that took place in Spain, about a forbidden love between a married man and a recently wedded woman. They had loved each other in the past, and when he appears at her wedding, their need of each other became so strong that they ran away during her reception. The newlywed’s husband had to seek revenge and kill the man who took his wife, and so everyone at the wedding went on a search for them. The lovers were found, and in a fight for honor, both the husband and the wife’s lover were killed. What made this play so memorable however, was all the choreography, singing, music, scenery and lighting. There wasn’t that much scenery, but the arches looked so realistic on stage, and the lighting that changed day and night was excellent. I loved the flamenco that was danced, and the singing, which was mostly in Spanish, contributed so much to the Spaniard ambient in which the play took place. The cast and the theatre workers did a great job in this play and the outcome was brilliant. Right now we just started working on the next play that is coming up. I don’t know much about this play other than the great amount of scenery it will include. We will have to experiment with the scenery of this upcoming play, so hopefully it turns out well!

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