This play was one that was very fun set to build. We created 2 stage extensions that were circles jutting out into the house. Those were custom built plugs with legs running down to the floor. Then we used some of the curtain that was left over from when we had replaced the stage curtains a few years before. Then those circles were wood grained with a wet brush method using long steel struts as strait edges. We did every other plank, let those dry, and then went back to do the remaining half.

The backdrop was some 1/4 inch plywood panels that we jig-sawed to shape, mounted to some jacks, and then painted to look like mountains in the distance.

The other large platform was another custom built raked platform built in a circle, then had some extra blocks and risers attached to it to make it into a large boulder. The skin of the boulder was mostly muslin fabric that was stretched and adhered with paint like a Dutchman technique. There were also some places that we cut holes in the muslin and used a PVC piece as a connecting nozzle to fog machines. There were 5 fog machines built into this boulder and during the ‘witch scenes’ I was physically crawled under the boulder and pressing all 5 buttons at once to cover the boulder with fog. The reason I had to be under the boulder to run them was because the trigger buttons we had could only reach to that one spot.

I did not act in this play and only did back stage work running scene changes, fog machines, and managing the back stage.

The other thing we built and I ran but did not get pictures of was a large moon that was hung from a baton. It was a large circle with lights inside. We had to coat it with special flame retardant because the lights were in such close proximity. During the show I was the one running the fly system to bring it in and out on cue.

Another weird thing I noticed was because this play was such a downer and depressing in nature, all the actors and stage hands seemed to try extra hard to be light hearted and upbeat off stage.