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Serge Gountas Technical Direction & Stage Automation |
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Cherry Orchard Williamstown Theatre Festival Director: Michael Greif Set Design: Allen Moyer Technical Director: Joel Brandwine Associate Technical Director: Serge Gountas |
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The wagon that carried the cherry trees was a 50 foot wagon that rolled off stage right and stored in the upper shop. The wagon was built utilizing castered studwalls that were then skinnned with plywood. | |
| The trees themselves were built in house with products provided by Autograph Foliage. The center of each tree was a piece of pipe that was Flanged at the base. The branches were bolted to the piece of pipe, then the blossoms were dressed to all the branches. |
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In the pit there was a 4 foot wide, by 16 foot long by 3 foot deep pool. The structure of the pool was built using steel walls with framing on one foot centers. The inside of the pool was skinned with two layers of 3/4 plywood. All the seams were caulked, and then we installed this custom built liner. | |
| To the right are pictures of the heater and the filter for the pool. The heater was run before shows and was easily able to get the water temperature to 75 degrees,. Both of these items were rented from the Huntigton Theatre in Boston. |
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Built by Rosebrand, the gauze curtain traveled on a tensioned piece of aircraft cable that was wrapped in UHMW tape. | |
| The railroad tracks were also a 50' unit that rolled in to to the upper shop adjacent to the theatre. Because the show deck was of minimal thickness, we ended up using spring loaded knives that were able to accommodate for unevenness in the floor. |
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