Sunday Surprise - Sceen Change

My brother, Mike, sent me a link to see how the sets change at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival. It is held in Ashland, Oregon and that is where we grew up. It has been around for year's and in fact, it got the very first regional Tony Award for theatre.
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is a repertory theatre company in Ashland Oregon. That is where I grew up. They change the sets every day with a dedicated crew who manage to strike and put up another set in just a few hours.

It's really an amazing feat that involves changing even the floors and using elevators below the stage to store the risers. The festival used to be just during the summer, but that all changed when they added the indoor theatre.

From its inception, the Angus Bowmer Theatre has welcomed patrons with the graciousness of the man for whom it was named, OSF’s founder Angus L. Bowmer. (Bonus info nugget is that I used to deliver Angus his newspaper). The immediacy between company and audience members in this space allows for theatrical voyages of human discovery, guided by some of the world’s greatest classical and contemporary playwrights and seats 600. Click on changover below to see it happen.

The changeover is from Measure for Measure designed by Clint Ramos to the first act of To Kill a Mockingbird designed by David Gallo. Shot on a Nikon D3S with a Zeiss 21mm and a Canon 7D with a Nikon 24-70.