Here are a few articles from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
When the Gods Choose a Different Play Each Night: Designing for Interactive Theatre
HowlRound: When Liz Fisher and Robert Matney of Whirligig Productions approached me about designing lights for their new and innovative version of the House of Atreus story, I jumped at the chance, knowing that I was taking on a rather large project and having no idea how I was going to tackle its challenges. Deus Ex Machina is an interactive retelling of the Oresteia—interactive in that, at key points in the play, characters go to an oracle to seek guidance, and the audience gets to select the prophecy that pushes the characters into their next course of action.
Between Martyrdom and Sacrifice
The Clyde Fitch Report: “How do people get away with that?” was the question hurled at me during a recent over-caffeinated rant about the storefront theatre in Chicago. My response, in the moment, was, “That’s just what theatre people do.”
It’s a sentiment I often hear echoed by my Chicago non-Equity theatre world – by actors, designers, and directors alike: “People who work in the arts … are going to be people who are passionately committed – given that they could earn so much more in another field.” Yes, we are the ones who don’t just accept, but embrace the sacrifice of high expectations and little pay to prove our passion for the cause.From Henry VIII’s Codpiece to Anne Boleyn’s Corset: Inside Wolf Hall’s Period Perfect Costumes
Vanity Fair: Those living in Tudor period England may not have benefited from such modern inventions as photographs and Photoshop but they did, as Wolf Hall costume designer Joanna Eatwell points out, have portraits and eager-to-please painters commissioned to create them. “We manipulate images and I think that happened very much in paintings,” Eatwell told us during a phone call last week about Wolf Hall, the six-part series adapted from Hilary Mantel’s 2009 novel about Thomas Cromwell’s rise to power in Henry VIII’s court that premiered on PBS on April 5. “We know that Henry VIII sent [German artist] Holbein to paint Anne of Cleves, who was to be his future wife. And when she arrived he did not recognize her [because of the portrait’s inaccuracy] and the marriage was never consummated.”Rigging Safety Day - #RigSafe
www.yourperformancepartners.com: How will you celebrate Arbor Day on April 24? We’re joining with USITT in celebrating Rigging Safety Day, a day to promote safer stages by posting and tweeting with the hashtag #RigSafe.
Behind The Redesign Of The THX Deep Note, The World's Most Iconic Audio Logo
Co.Design | business + design: So famous that it has been sampled by Dre and parodied on The Simpsons, the THX Deep Note is one of the most recognizable pieces of computer-generated music in the world. Although it contains only one note spread across a variety of pitches and modulations, this 30-channel glissando of discordant sounds builds upon itself to go from loud, to louder, to extremely loud and incredibly close. Now, the iconic audio logo is getting its first redesign ever by the same man who gave the world the Deep Note in the first place. And it's even more dramatic than before.
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