Stage 4: Finessing the Finish

Stage 4: Finessing the Finish
What comes after the initial part of rehearsal is finished? What are ways to maintain quality physical and vocal work during the demands of performance? What can I do to adjust staging for a variety of production venues? Where can I find ideas and information for the design and costuming of my production? Are there ways of putting dance or movement into my production? These are some of the questions eShakespeare helps answer within Stage 4: Finessing the Finish.

ACTivities

Taking and Giving Observation Notes

Vocal Care

Performing in a Variety of Venues

Other Resources

Costumes

http://www.renfaire.com/Costume/
This Renaissance Faire site provides you with a brief overview of how to recreate clothing from the Elizabethan time period.

The Costumer’s Manifesto
http://www.costumes.org/pages/16thlinks.htm
This website is an essential resource for any costumer. The site provides various links to the history of clothing during a given time period, books on building specific costume pieces and places where one might buy specific costume pieces

Sets

http://www.everreader.com/evaclark.htm
An informative overview of how scenic elements were used on the Elizabethan stage.

http://www.sbgmusic.com/html/teacher/scenerypdf.html
This website provides simple ways to create theatrical scenery. The site gives instructions on how to create these items: backdrops, stand-alone scenic pieces for the stage floor, and stick masks that represent various characters and objects.

Props

http://abcbabysit.com/joann/papermache.htm
Paper mache is one of the most versatile methods for creating objects for use on stage.

http://www.lotharslair.com/lothar.htm
Focusing on scary and haunting props, this web site gives you clear building instructions and plenty of images.

Makeup

Narnia Studio Theatre
http://www.narnia-productions.com/1500'smu2.html
This website provides an overview of Renaissance makeup and detailed instructions.

Music

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/minstrel.html
This is a homepage for the performing arts as practiced in the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA). The arts include songs, folk, storytelling, and juggling, but generally don't include consort music. The SCA covers mostly Western Europe from the fall of Rome until 1600.

http://www.classicalarchives.com/
This website helps you acquire your own MIDI samples from English Renaissance composers (among many others). You will find samples here from Byrd, Campion, Dowland, Morley and many others. The emphasis is on the Classical period, but there are many early music samples here also.

Dance

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/efw20/ShakespeareanDance/
This site provides a history of Renaissance dance, steps and terminology, the court masque, and dance within particular Shakespeare plays.

http://www.rendance.org/
Here you will find information on everything to do with European dance from the 15th to early 17th centuries.

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