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So as I've gone on about for a couple years now, my new black box theater is nearing completion. My question is what do you do with your black box between shows? Do you have a default seating configuration you go back to? Do you have a rep light plot? If so what is it?
At this point I'm thinking that since the theater is going to be a class room and used for things like guest lectures between shows, returning to a thrust seating configuration with a thrust rep plot makes sense to me. What do you do?
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At Ithaca college, we kept our small theatre (essentially a black box) in a basic configuration, though in my time there they purchased new seating stands and experimented with a few different configs. The standard config was a thrust, and actually, usually only one show out of the year was done in the round. The theatre had HMI work lights, house lights, as well as some Source Four PARs that all ran on an architecture system so that teachers who used the space for class could turn lights on and off easy. We always struck all the theatre fixtures between shows.
I would think though, that if you know that you are going to have lectures on a regular basis you might want to set up a basic wash that is easy to turn on that covers where a lecturer might stand/present.
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Thanks. Anybody see a black box set their seats back to Proscenium style?
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Yeah I've done that. If you have a big black box it doesn't work so hot. Ours is 40' by 40' and the people on the sides end up having to crain their neck around a lot to see what's going on.
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We typically strike everything except the seating, which stays in the configuration it was in for the last show (why move it twice - it's a lot of seating!). The space is used during the day for classes, but they just adapt to the new seating.
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Oh I do like that idea. I hadn't thought about it that way.
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Our theatres are not used in between shows. We have no rep-plot as we never have the inventory to keep all our spaces open with the needed inventory for those shows.
So if we had dedicated inventory to each space that was hung as a rep plot we would never be able to actualy design anything. JH |
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