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Technical Design Solutions for Theatre
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Technical Design Solutions for Theatre

by Ben Sammler, Don Harvey
December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
9h 35m
English
Routledge
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Pater Liao

A Durable, Rough Texture Coating for Scenery and Props

There’s no shortage of information about the ingredients used in texture coatings for scenery and props. Every stagecraft text offers detailed recipes, nearly every shop has a favorite “house blend,” and of course there’s always the wisdom of the Internet. Nevertheless, many of the texture coatings used in theatre suffer from two shortcomings: they can’t easily be built up into rich relief; and they tend to be fairly fragile. This article addresses those problems.

THE PROBLEM AND SOLUTION

The “Shadow Dance” segment of California State University-Pomona’s 1993 production Bends in the Road was set in a five-thousand-year-old tomb. The challenge was to give the wagon-mounted unit ...

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ISBN: 9780240804927