For my theater-design course (TA 31 at Cabrillo), my next assignment is to create costume renderings (with certain constraints). Because I have never done a costume rendering before and never used water colors (the suggested method), I decided to do a practice run over the weekend, doing some costume renderings for Falstaff, Bardolph, Pistol, and […]| Gas station without pumps
For Theater Arts 31 (Introduction to Theater Design), we had to design a box set for Chekhov’s The Bear (sometimes translated as The Boor), a short one-act play that takes place in the living room of a widowed country aristocrat. We read the play in class (probably because the teacher didn’t expect half the class to have […]| Gas station without pumps
The SM East theater department announced its 2025-26 season at its annual banquet on May 17. The upcoming season includes the Musical Revue theme as “The Best of Broadway,” the Fall Musical “Bye Bye Birdie” and the Winter Play “Silent, but Deadly.” To choose which shows the department will perform, English teacher Brian Capello read […]| The Harbinger Online
As I promised in Acting Update: Fortinbras, this post is about building Claudius’s prayer bench (my work for TA 27 Theatre Production Workshop). The design is not mine, but Skip Epperson’s, but I did all the construction on the bench. First, the photos: Building the prayer bench got me a chance to work with a […]| Gas station without pumps
As mentioned in First costume renderings, my most recent assignment for my theater-design course was to create costume renderings for 4 characters: a lead singer and 3 chorus members. The design w…| Gas station without pumps
