{"id":1796,"date":"2016-10-25T19:06:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T00:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2017-11-17T11:49:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T16:49:08","slug":"comedy-of-errors-tech-week-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/2016\/10\/25\/comedy-of-errors-tech-week-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"COMEDY OF ERRORS: Tech Week Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

I mentioned collaboration in my last post. This is, truly, one of my favorite parts about being a theatre person. Tech Week for The Comedy of Errors<\/em> began on Saturday and the\u00a0power of collaboration was on full display.<\/p>\n

For weeks the actors have \u00a0been rehearsing, the technicians have been building the set, and lighting designer Charles Raffetto and Costume Designer Ashley Tyler have been creating unique looks for the show. While we were working separately all of us had our eyes on the same prize: creating a cohesive, outlandish, ridiculous production of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors.\u00a0<\/em>Our job was to stay true to Shakespeare and his influences, while bringing something new and fun to the table. Yesterday we got to see if our individual work came together in all the right ways. Needless to say, when I saw Ashley Tyler’s costume designs on the set Charles Raffeto designed, with the lights hung by tech theatre students, I did another happy dance.<\/p>\n

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Assistant Stage Manager Risa looks over the prop table with crew members Britanie and Ha.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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As blog readers know, Shakespeare was influenced by the Italian Comedy which \u00a0also heavily influenced our production. Charles Raffetto wanted to bring the “town square” feeling of a commedia<\/em> performance to our theatre and created an open playing space ready for a modern-day commedia<\/em> troupe.<\/p>\n

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The town square waiting for the actors to arrive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We thought long and hard about what present-day actors would be in such a travelling troupe and came to one conclusion: hipsters. You will see that influence in the base costumes Ashley Tyler has given each actor. Prepare yourselves for vintage hair, lots of scarves, and at least two pairs of suspenders. Layered on top of our base costumes are character-specific pieces. Commedia<\/em> was an art form of survival– troupes got by with very little. Ms.\u00a0Tyler took this idea and ran with it, crafting her outlandish costumes with found items like coffee filters and post-office envelopes.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Pinch, Antipholus of Ephesus, and Luciana’s costumes wait in the wings for their entrance.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All of this is to say that we hope to bring the same energy to our production as there was the night Comedy<\/em> was first performed. While we don’t want our audience to riot like that night in 1594, we hope you do have a riotous good time. This will be thanks, in large part, to the “theatre magic” created through the work of our designers.<\/p>\n

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Nina and Glede apply Ashley Tyler’s wacky make-up designs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mentioned collaboration in my last post. This is, truly, one of my favorite parts about being a theatre person. Tech Week for The Comedy of Errors began on Saturday and the\u00a0power of collaboration was on full display. For weeks the actors have \u00a0been rehearsing, the technicians have been building the set, and lighting designer … Continue reading COMEDY OF ERRORS: Tech Week Begins<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,129,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-news","category-theater-highlights","category-williston-theatre"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/artsspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}