So my old highschool just received ELEVEN nominations for the Fifth Avenue High School Theatre Awards. Bravo guys! (Including Tech & Set).
(For those of you who don’t know. My sophomore year we got eleven nominations, 1 or 2 wins. Junior year - eleven nominations 1 win. Senior year - four nominations, 1 win (BEST SET.) So getting back to eleven is good for them.)

And Rhinoceros got a published story about it in our University Newspaper.

Two Gentlemen of Verona - Photoshopped some Tintypes, apparently I’m better at Photoshop than my technical director. He kept saying the director/actors were raving about how well they turned out. I basically just screwed around with filters. Ah well, accidental win for me! I also made a hand mirror, but that one was cut in favor of a real one. Fine by me.

Rhinoceros - If anyone knows where I can find a convincing dead grey striped cat for cheap lemme know. If not I can always beat up a stuffed one. Also I need ideas for “dust” so as to show Rhinoceroses are trampling across set with killing our actors or audience by infecting their lungs.

Cyrano de Bergerac - Rapiers. It’s all about the Rapiers. I can’t find any fancy looking ones for less than a fortune (that is, a fortune to a college student, which is like upwards of $50 per sword). So we’re trying to borrow from the fencing team. Which should be interesting. Also, does anyone know where I can find a pastry shaped like a harp? I need six of them for the beginning of June. I think we’ll be making one, but that’s going to take a load of work. Did I mention we don’t have a set designer for this show? (Well, we don’t have one for Rhino either… Well… I’m basically doing props and set for it). So it’s a big collab of the designers and director.

Exciting, exciting.

Well it’s off to a production meeting. Wish me luck. :)

I promise you I will actually be posting props-related posts soon.

I am working on two shows this quarter:

Cyrano de Bergerac

and

Rhinoceros

I’m very excited for both, but also a little stressed out.
I’ll keep you updated as I get more into the process!

Rhinoceros (French original title Rhinocéros) is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play belongs to the school of drama known as the Theatre of the Absurd. Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial French town turn into rhinoceroses; ultimately the only human who does not succumb to this mass metamorphosis is the central character, Bérenger, a flustered everyman figure who is often criticized throughout the play for his drinking and tardiness. The play is often read as a response to the sudden upsurge of Communism, Fascism and Nazism during the events preceding World War II, and explores the themes of conformity, culture, philosophy, and morality.

Summary from Wikipedia.

Do you know what this means!?
This means I’m going to making at least be creating props to imply some motherfucking Rhinoceroses!

This is going to be the best prop designing job ever.
Needless to say, I’m very excited. Even if I haven’t even attained a script yet.

If you want to know more about the play: Click here