and finally...

Couldn't resist adding some more!

The Performance

Well done everyone on what I think was a really great performance! I've enjoyed this last week or two so much - thank you for all your hard work. Here is just a taster of some of the photos I took. Have a restful weekend, and if I don't speak to you before, a lovely Christmas.

A Parisian Boulevard

We had a very revealing production meeting on Monday with Dave Horn, the theatre manager, Julian, the theatre wood workshop technician, and Barry, the metal work technician, in terms of bringing in until this point outsiders to the project, and it highlighting previously unseen problems. Questions that were asked were:
- The three trees in the model box give the impression of the house being in a forest, with them encircling it - is this a correct impression?
- If the trees are meant to indicate a French boulevard, are there enough, are they tall enough, and is their positioning correct, i.e. shouldn't they be in a straight line?
- Flying all the pictures in the house, the billboards and the roof on a diagonal, will take much more time as they will cross fly-bars. Do we have the time for this? If we fly them perpendicular will this compromise the aesthetic?
- Are the benches we are going to use (the ones from the college courtyard), just being chosen because they are convenient? Have we done the research in to what Parisian Boulevard benches look like and do the college ones correspond?
- What about the floor? Previously we had added a suggestion of a road in to the design but then this was removed from the because of the budget. Should we reinclude this to enhance the suggestion of the space? What cheap methods of doing this are there?

So you see, there are many questions we have not looked at fully enough. Most deal with the outside space. This indicates something we had perhaps already known deep-down: that the outside space was slightly problematic in comparison to the interior space of the house, because we are not entirely certain of which world it inhabits....dream world/ surreal/ real/ the past/ or the present?
There are lots of things to clarify.
I have posted some pictures of a boulevard for extra inspiration.