Mother Courage and Her Children - AUCB Theatre Production

This is an insight into one of my Univeristy unit's called Concepts in Context. It started on the 6th January and opening night was the 9th February.
For this project my role was Set Assistant, this involved helping the Set Desginer in anyway she needed, I began working from day one of the build until the opening night. 


We started by offloading the delivery lorry of wood, and cracked on for two 9 hour days and managed to get the foundations of the set build. This was my first experiance of building a set for a live production.

This photo is the model box the Designer had made in 1.25 scale. When I saw this I was able to grasp what we were to work towards and it became more realistic after reading the script.

Building was extremely fun and I learnt quite a few new techniques and how to use several tools.



Building the gravestones



Carving the polystyrene covering on the gravestones



The cart foundation finished



Breaking down props

These images show some of the stages that were involved in the making the set, we had a full weekend of building and a full weekend of painting. I learnt several painting techniques including how to paint a floor cloth with a gravelled effect, and also how to make metal look rusty and of cours ehow to make polystyrene look like weathered gravestones!

I also used illustrator and a laser cutting machine to produce the stencils for the replica ammunition boxes. Also re-visited my sewing skills to make the harness for two actors to pull the cart along.

The set in action