SCENERY PAINTING FOR THE AMATEUR MUSICAL THEATRE and PANTOMIME
THE MERRY WIDOW Page two.
Designed by Donald O'Brien.
Scenic Artist Brian Willis. Sets built by Norman Ballentine.
Performed by Portrush Music Society at the Riverside Theatre Coleraine. (1996)
A Salon in the Pontevedrian Embassy. This theatre has a raked auditorium which causes problems with eyelines. So I painted the "tops" of the staircase balustrade and pillars in the hopes that the majority of the audience was above the eyeline.

Detail of the portrait at the back of set.

Unusually for me, I painted this with acrylics to get the vibrant (garish) colours.

This was painted on a flat piece of board. The frame is a trompe l'oeil.

This is the portrait to which the chorus sing at the opening of this operetta and I'm damned if I can remember the man's name. Anyone help me?

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