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DC Week 1: Not Dead Yet!
Sep. 13th, 2009 11:53 pmI've been in Olney for exactly a week, and am completely exausted but loving it. I live quite literally above the theatre-- the Historic Theatre (the oldest of the 4 stages at Olney) has 5 rooms above the house, and that's where most of the interns live. It's quite awesome. Much of the building is original (so it smells of old wood and awesomeness), including the baskets that serve as shades for the house lights.
My room is about 4 steps away from the SM table/alcove, and I can hear whatever is happening on the stage. The Historic isn't the mainstage, but is used by the Olney traveling troupe for rehearsal as well as by rental groups. At the moment there's lots of yelling and pounding; I think it's Lord of the Flies rehearsal. Ah yes. There was "KILL THE PIG!!!" Lord of the Flies it is!
I spent most of yesterday distressing pieces for that show. The designer mentioned that she hates distressing, so I happily volunteered. I got to spend Saturday attacking a bunch of shirts and pants with spray paint, rocks, mud, and razor blades. So much fun! I've also done a bunch of tailoring for the next mainstage, Night Must Fall. I had a fantastic moment on Tuesday when the pattern I was working from required a French seam and I actually said out loud "Hey! I can do that 'cause I learned it in costume construction!"
Skilz. I haz dem.
The designer for Night Must Fall is Liz Covey, who (in addition to being one of the authors of The Costume Technician's Handbook) is an amazingly brilliant and tiny British woman who swears ALL THE TIME. She's definitely as much teacher as she is designer, and has already taken the time to answer my questions about her renderings and fabric choices and research and anything else I can think of.
There's lots more going through my head, about this industry and money and our environmental impact and shared creativity and being invisible and a gazillion other things. But I think I'm going to sleep.
G'night!
My room is about 4 steps away from the SM table/alcove, and I can hear whatever is happening on the stage. The Historic isn't the mainstage, but is used by the Olney traveling troupe for rehearsal as well as by rental groups. At the moment there's lots of yelling and pounding; I think it's Lord of the Flies rehearsal. Ah yes. There was "KILL THE PIG!!!" Lord of the Flies it is!
I spent most of yesterday distressing pieces for that show. The designer mentioned that she hates distressing, so I happily volunteered. I got to spend Saturday attacking a bunch of shirts and pants with spray paint, rocks, mud, and razor blades. So much fun! I've also done a bunch of tailoring for the next mainstage, Night Must Fall. I had a fantastic moment on Tuesday when the pattern I was working from required a French seam and I actually said out loud "Hey! I can do that 'cause I learned it in costume construction!"
Skilz. I haz dem.
The designer for Night Must Fall is Liz Covey, who (in addition to being one of the authors of The Costume Technician's Handbook) is an amazingly brilliant and tiny British woman who swears ALL THE TIME. She's definitely as much teacher as she is designer, and has already taken the time to answer my questions about her renderings and fabric choices and research and anything else I can think of.
There's lots more going through my head, about this industry and money and our environmental impact and shared creativity and being invisible and a gazillion other things. But I think I'm going to sleep.
G'night!