Introduction
Bedroom Fiasco
You come home from school one afternoon and are surprised to see that you have nothing in your bedroom. There is no bed, no dresser, no pictures on the walls. The room is a barren landscape. What happened to all of your belongings? These items show your history and your personality. Where did your "Player of the Week" trophy go? What happened to your picture board? Why are your walls white when they use to be purple? What's going on? What do you do? Do you run screaming from your room, demanding to know what happened to your stuff? Or, do you throw your backpack on the floor and get to work?
Theatre Designers
That is the job of theatre designers. They take a blank space, the stage, and make it come to life. Make it show the story of the people in the script. Help it show the history and the personality. It takes great planning and cooperation among the production team – the producer, the director, and all of the designers.
In this lesson, you will learn about the final piece of the team, the designers, made up of scene, costume, lighting, and sound designers.
The play Boeing Boeing is set in the 1960s so the set and costume designers had to make sure the actor's costumes and the stage reflected that time period. © 2016, UA Theatre and Dance. Image used with permission.
Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to...
- Identify the responsibilities of different types of designers: scene, costume, lighting, and sound
- Analyze a play in terms of technical needs
Essential Questions
- How does the collaboration of theatre artists relate directly to the success of a theatrical work?
Enduring Understandings
- A theatrical works' success is dependent on the collaboration of many artists.
The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Theatre Proficient standards: 5.
