As I left our last class on Tuesday I reflected on my time working on Ragtime. Not only did it define this semester for me, Ragtime really defined my freshman year. With all the stress that accompanies the end of a semester its hard to think about anything other than finals or summer but I […]
The general prompt for this post was to track your characters journey throughout the show – I decided to parallel this prompt and track the journey of a prop from merely a brief mention in the script to an actual physical object on stage. Tateh’s silhouette display stand spends approximately 8 minutes on stage, which […]
Working on a more technical aspect of Ragtime I’ve often found myself fairly detached from the plot and characters in the show. Its my job to know who uses what when, to find where I can get it, to sort through dusty closets in search of hidden 1900’s era treasures. I’ve had some experience with […]
As I sat down to write this post I realized I had absolutely no idea what I was going to write. So as any college student would do, I turned to Google. I didn’t expect typing “Ragtime Props” into the search engine would yield any mind blowing results but what I found turned out to […]
