Doug Lowthian
Active Member
Our community theater group has a stage with a basketball court sized backstage, a 25x50 acting area on stage, an annual budget (for everything) of around $10k. We do 1 big show and 4-5 smaller shows a year. Our stage actually is a basketball court so no drilling into the floor or leaving sets in place outside of a 2-3 week window around shows.
Our audience area seats 700 on teh floor and another 300 in the balcony but we rarely fill it. The town has shrunk since it was built as a high school in 1933. Now it is a community center.
We want to up our game beyond the standard flats and single level sets. We want to replicate teh magic of big budget productions using the low budget of a community theater.
So what books, websites or references would you reccommend to give us the biggest bang and ideas for our buck.
Thanks in advance....
Our audience area seats 700 on teh floor and another 300 in the balcony but we rarely fill it. The town has shrunk since it was built as a high school in 1933. Now it is a community center.
We want to up our game beyond the standard flats and single level sets. We want to replicate teh magic of big budget productions using the low budget of a community theater.
So what books, websites or references would you reccommend to give us the biggest bang and ideas for our buck.
Thanks in advance....