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Serge Gountas Technical Direction & Stage Automation |
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Double Williamstown Theatre Festival Director: Roger Rees Set Design: Neil Patel Technical Director: Serge Gountas Associate Technical Directors: Michael Wyant & Colin Stewart |
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This show closed the 2006 season. This set is constructed of Hollywood flats. There is a break underneath the picture rail. The mouldings are primarily MDF buildups. The cornice is made of polystyrene foam that was made by the Carpenter Company in High Point, NC. The floor is a routed birch plank floor. | |
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| The platforms for the second story were supported by stud walls. The two corner platforms were constructed of steel, with the rest being standard 2x4 stock platforms. The thickness of the platform was 12". Since the platform cantilevered and also had to support the spiral staircase, the construction of the steel platforms consisted of 1" box tube for the chords and the web. The center post has a 3" pipe inside it with arms coming out, which catches the SR corner of the platform. The staircase was also a bit tricky because the middle third had to roll out of the way so someone can fall in it and do a body double switch. |
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The top third of the staircase is supported by a 1" box tube steel stud wall. The outer stringer is a glue up of two layers of bendable luan. We put the treads and risers together first, then wrapped that structure with the bendable luan. That structure was then bolted in to the truss platforms. | |
| All the railing parts were bent in house. The posts all drop in to the deck and bolt to the platforms. |  |
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All the decorative steel in the doors was also built in house and are made to be inserts. | |