戏剧系春季演出的 她杀死怪物 5月1日首播! 点击这里买票, 和 read more about the show below from 剧院 Department Chair Ben Dicke.
Photo above of 她杀死怪物 rehearsal by Michele Marie Photography.
When deciding on a Spring show this year, how did you choose 她杀死怪物?
Honestly, when we are talking about show selection, it always begins with the ensemble. Who are the students we currently have 和 what are the plays that match well with their strengths? 今年, the mitigating constraints regarding in-person work also led us to shows that we thought might pair well with greater technology use. 她杀死怪物 takes place in multiple worlds 和 for the last year as we’ve all spent so much time gathering 和 meeting online, 这出戏似乎配得很好.
In 4 sentences or less, tell us about this production.
她杀死怪物 讲述了阿格尼斯的故事, a high school teacher who has lost her little sister Tilly some years ago in a car accident. While packing up Tilly’s bedroom, Agnes discovers her sister’s 龙与地下城 notebook 和 decides to play the game as a means of getting to know her sister better. 玩游戏的过程, like any examination into someone else’s life, 是阿格尼斯的自我发现.
Tell us about the special technical aspects of this show. Ie. 购买和使用的新设备.
The 剧院 Department here at The Academy has garnered a reputation for marrying ambitious technical elements to compelling plays expertly performed by our dedicated students. Because of the parameters surrounding COVID-19 safety, this current production will involve technical aspects far beyond anything attempted by this department. 事实上, we believe we are attempting some technical innovations not attempted anywhere outside of the largest Hollywood production studios.
事实上, Hollywood does this type of green screen filtering 和 marrying in post-production. 我们正在尝试现场直播.
We are attempting to marry through green screen technology, multiple actors across multiple spaces 和 limiting their contact with one another through a layering process 和 a shared background. We have built seven different green screen performance spaces throughout the theatre wing with sound, 照明, 和 camera equipment all running to one central hub. The hub controls 和 then blends the spaces 和 actors into one single output for the audience streaming the production.
教员巴克·布鲁, 谁是我们的生产部经理, 和莎拉·格兰特, 我们的虚拟背景设计师, have built an inventive world that takes the audience between Agnes’ reality 和 the fantasy elements of a 龙与地下城 领域. 除了, faculty member Emily Luhrs has built the costumes 和 creature designs for our company of 14 actors. Music Department faculty member Jack Murray is also designing 和 managing the live sound we’ll need for a cohesive production.
Of all of the negative aspects of putting this production together during covid, what is one positive thing that has come out of this time.
I think that our ensemble is as tight-knit as ever. That community is entirely the result of the student’s pulling together 和 relying on one another this year.
How many hours a week do the students put into rehearsing together 和 individually.
The students are currently rehearsing together an average of ten hours per week. Because of limited building access due to COVID-19 safety protocols, this is quite a bit less than in a normal year. 这意味着他们的个人排练, 其中包括回顾行, 阻塞, 还有大发彩票平台性格和关系的笔记, becomes even more crucial to the success of the production.
Tell us about the stage combat skills/training that went into this production.
我们的战斗设计师, 艾莉森Dornheggen, has brought so many wonderful ideas to the combat in this show. She has led our production team in a number of great discussions about the world of the play 和 the relationships of the characters. 除了, Alison has supplied us with real steel weaponry, which is an amazing opportunity for our students. 战斗部分会很精彩! (当然是安全的.)
As opening night approaches, what are you the most excited about?
So much of this year has been about navigating new territory for our arts discipline. All of the discoveries we made during our incredibly successful live-streamed productions of 头脑风暴 和 爱 & 信息 last semester 和 our four-production Shakespeare Festival in January have led us to this moment. Even last spring’s senior showcase that forced us to produce on zoom 和 this year’s senior showcase that gave us a chance to test out this green screen technology have played a pivotal role in the making of this show.
Looking back at this year, our faculty 和 students have learned so much. All of that learning is coming to the massive culmination that is 她杀死怪物: A Live multi-media spectacular. 还没上映就已经很成功了. 这让我每天都很兴奋.