Vintage stage design

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Listen... Week 2 This took about six hours to set up. Fortunately where I work has about a hundred unused shades in the upstairs for some reason, so I decided to put them to use. Most of the time was spent wiring them electrically. I got into a rhythm after about the fourth one and started zoning out making these things. After making simple chandeliers out of these shades I then dragged them outside to this old born and ran a bunch of extension from a nearby building to power them all. It…

Opera and the theatre

There really is nothing quite like a great Broadway show, in the words of theatre director Augusto Boal, ‘Theatre is the art of looking at ourselves.’ Shows bring storytelling to a level that movies and books just can’t compete with. Maybe it’s the magic of live-acting; the orchestra; or the charming theatre architecture. Perhaps it’s simply the shared entertainment experience, or getting out and off the couch! Whatever the draw, theatre is a superb night out whether with family or your…

Jordan Christie from Hillcrest Baptist Church Spanish Trail Campus in Pensacola, FL brings us this stage design incorporating trees. They used branches from crepe myrtle trees, spray painted them white, and cemented them in 5 gallon buckets. The branches came from Jordan’s front yard. Materials: 5 strands of bistro lights with Edison bulbs, $550. 20 cans of white spray […]

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The Service Design Team from Immanuel Church in Gurnee, IL brings us this fun stage design. To create this, they strung cardboard pizza blank circles through fishing line. They suspended the strands from the ceiling, and then used colorful LED lighting to light it up. They spent about $300 on the project. Tweet1SharePin1.2K1.2K Shares

Adam Carmichael from Santa Cruz Bible Church in Santa Cruz, CA brings us this cool use of pallets with gaps of light bulbs peeking through. (Originally posted February 2015) They designed this pallet stage to accent their theater-style layout. Materials: – 20-30 pallets of various shapes and sizes, all carefully dismantled (Note: they went for the weathered look, so they chose pallets […]