Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHOSEN, by Chaim Potok, pits a pair of Jewish teen-agers against one another with a backdrop of Brooklyn in the closing days of World...
...given an exciting, if not-so-well acted, production. Most House shows try to disguise what they are by converting dining rooms, junior common rooms et al. into ordinary theatres or close approximations thereof. Kay Bourne, the director of Burnering, uses a wood-panelled junior common wall for a backdrop, windows for entrances and exits, and a simple platform stage. Through imaginative, deliberate use of lighting, Miss Picker's hour long play is staged without interruption and with only...
...ingenious double set of porticos, was attractive. More important, it was flexible enough to portray three different scenes by switching only a few paintings and the simple but effective lighting. The set's only failing was that it seemed a little flimsy; occasionally the backdrop started oscillating ominously and one feared that it had been put together with Scotch tape...
...from 1605 onwards, Jones revolutionized English stage techniques, importing the Italian proscenium arch and exiling the simple "wooden O" of Shakespeare's stage for three centuries. From Florence, he adapted stage sets that consisted of serried ranks of flats painted in perspective, with a distant vista on the backdrop, "the whole worke shooting downewards," as Jonson said, "which caught the eye afarre off with a wandring beauty...
Daniel Michaelson has done a masterful job with the set. His problem was to construct a backdrop that would allow quick exits from many positions on two levels, and could serve for living room or basement or operating room. He managed it with a series of swiveling slats that should be seen by anyone who plans to design a House production. Alan P. Symonds has done a careful job with the lighting, which is also a good deal more sophisticated than one expects at a House play...