The beginning of the end.

Today is the beginning of a large shift in the production; the beginning of the end. The day when the focus becomes completing the production by adding light cues, sound cues, and visual imagery. In just a few days time we'll add all the costumes, make-up, and we will have all the props. We call this process "tech", because it's adding all the technical elements. Some even call this time in the show "hell week", but I don't like thinking of it that way.

When I first started theatre in high school, I would try to explain the process of tech to my parents, and they would always just nod and try to sympathize. It's one of those things you can never truly understand until you go through it. For the freshmen and first timer's, it's like a right of passage. In this case, it's been about 9 and 1/2 weeks since auditions, 8 weeks since our first read through, and about 6 weeks since we started a full time rehearsal schedule. By this time in the process many people are already exhausted. This past week also marked the beginning of wide spread sickness within the cast. After working on it for so long, you might even say we're in dire need of taking it to the next level- and here we are!

By the end of the weekend, the show will be completely transformed. That exhaustion that you feel coming into the weekend, somehow transforms itself into an anxious yet excited energy, anticipatory if you will. Finally the people who have been designing for this moment exactly, get to take their own work to the next level, by putting it to life on stage. We're literally opening this circle that has been our closest family for the past 6 weeks and inviting our extended relatives (in a way), to come live with us. What will come of it? Probably a few misunderstandings, possible delirium, some very serious focus, a lot of laughter, and in the end- one amazing production.

Please make sure to join us next weekend.

Nov. 13-15 (Thurs - Sat)

Nov. 19-22 (Wed- Sat) 

7:30- The Eugena Rawls Courtyard Theatre

The King Center- Auraria Campus 

Tickets: 5$ for UCD students, $12 general admission

Feel free to learn more about the production in the previous post. Included is a brief biography of our playwright Bertolt Brecht, information on Epic Theatre, and the source materials for this The Caucasian Chalk Circle. 

Wish us luck this weekend! Thank you all!!

Felicia Marti,

Assistant Director