Design and Production

Outside the box

1 Comment By Dana Taylor | September 21, 2011
Prior to beginning this post, let me assure you that I am not a great user of the latest “catch phrases.” As a high school teacher for twenty-plus years you would think contemporary phrases and terminology would have entered my ...
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Back to Basics

1 Comment By Dana Taylor | August 15, 2011
During the “Working with Moving Lights” class I was teaching at this year’s Thespian Festival, I made a statement to the effect that I had once lit a production of Cats using moving light and couldn’t imagine doing it with ...
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Test 1, Test 2, Test 1, Test 2

No Comments By Dana Taylor | March 22, 2011
None of us really like tests, from the chest X-ray I got this morning, to the quiz I’ll give my technical theatre students on Friday. But if we don’t test, we really don’t know that we know. I won’t know if there is ...
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In loco parentis

No Comments By Dana Taylor | January 13, 2011
A few weeks ago, a question came up on the Stagecraft mailing list about the responsibilities a teacher has with respect to the safety of his students. The question was well-intentioned but took an unusual turn when the poster stated ...
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Show as Syllabus

2 Comments By Dana Taylor | October 20, 2010
Much of the work we do and the skills we teach in technical theatre are driven by “the show.” The sets, the lights, the microphones we put on an actor—indeed, all of the elements of production of the show that opens ...
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