SCENERY PAINTING FOR THE AMATEUR MUSICAL THEATRE and PANTOMIME
DICK WHITTINGTON - (Lisnagarvey) page five
Designed and painted by Brian Willis.
Scenery built by Robert Montgomery, Stan Moss, Derek Allen and Jim Moffatt.
Performed by Lisnagarvey Operatic Society (1972)
VILLAGE BACKCLOTH (squared up for transferring)
Each square represents a foot. The audience eyeline is normally about a foot off the stage floor and here I have done a trompe l'oeil by inferring we are looking down a hill, - hence the descending roofs.
 
I have a feeling this was not for Dick Whittington but probably "Babes in the Wood". One village looks the same as any other village in Panto-land. Actually I have a problem with panto village scenes, trying to lay out the buildings to make an interesting scene yet not be the same as last year's production. I have occasionally tossed a heap of lego bricks down and used the resulting higgildy -piggledy shape as a basis for my village buildings.
 
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