Artful Making: What Managers Need to Know About How Artists Work

and musical accompaniment, and think about ways to light it

all. Since they work with physical things, these artists and arti-

sans must make closure on their ideas in time to find, borrow,

buy, rent, or construct them. The things they make become

part of the rehearsal’s given circumstances; they’re set early on

and can be changed only at great expense and difficulty. The

different design elements are interdependent with each other

and with the play-to-be as a whole. For instance, the set

designer has chosen a color for the walls of the room, and the

costumer has used this color in her palette for the clothing.

Then the prop master discovers a gorgeous ...