The Glamorous Life

This week has been a little less crazy in terms of amounts of work I've taken on, allowing me to completely recover from a cold and to relax a little and make plans for the future. 

At the Huntington, we struck the set of Our Town. This show performed at the Boston Center for the Arts, about 15 minutes away from the Huntington's main theater. It was a messy strike, since a lot of the set was custom built and therefore unlikely to be used again (especially not with the small amount of storage space this city-based theater has)-- so a lot of it had to be demolished down to dumpster size. Not to mention the fireproofed fake snow and the real trees we brought in for parts of the set.

During the building stage

I worked with the scenic designer to put these trees in behind the doorway you see in the first photo...

...and it looked kind of like this from the front when the show opened.

We took all of Monday to get rid of the entire set.

After that, we worked to restore the space to its original state/to a different seating configuration. We worked closely with the managers of the space to install a huge amount of risers and seats (which involves a surprising number of parts and leveling), to store pipes and equipment properly, and to ensure all of the Huntington's tools were returned to our shop. Although we work in that space often, other groups rent it as well, and many of the students we see at the shop at Huntington Ave are also in and out of this space or one of the many theaters in the complex on Tremont Street.

So, kind of like recovering seats last week at the Hunt...the end of this week has been pretty tedious. It just goes to show, people in this business have to love what they do. John Devlin told me they have to need it. I know I do because although it sucks sometimes, the results and the people are so worth it.