Black Box

The black box is located beside the main HS theater next to the changing rooms, for easy access and partiality (for actors).

The black box consists of 4 black walls, and a blank floor and ceiling. Its an empty room that can be set up to hold any small production, mainly set up in a thrust position to hold the audience.  It has a control panel above the audience where the lighting and sound is controlled.

the black box is a useful empty space that can be used to hold any production (props and the seating arrangement are easy to move and change due to the room being “empty and basic”)

 

Spotlight Room

The spotlight room is located in the HS theater across and above the stage. It is placed above the theater/stage and point towards the stage in order for the light to project and highlight the actors when needed.

This is a small room that contains two spotlights and a chair. It needs at least one experienced personal running the lights during a performance. The room can and will get heated while the lights are in use because of the heat produced when the spotlights are on, because of this it makes the job more difficult to manage.

The purpose of the spotlight room is to be best placed in the theater where the spotlights are able to reach anywhere on the stage. This is important because while in a production the spotlight will follow an actor throughout the stage in order to highlight or place importance on a certain actor or scene.

 

Dimmer Room

The dimmer room is located in the HS theater above the stage next to the spotlight room. The dimmer room can be located anywhere in the theater as long as it has easy access in and out.

The dimmer room is full of controls for the lights throughout the theater. The controls control whether the lights are on or off and the brightness of each light. There is a red light which indicates whether the lights are on or off.

The purpose of the dimmer room is to easily control all the lights from one room, instead of having to control each light manually. It saves time and energy although when in the dimmer room you can not visually see the stage, so,  other backstage crew or a stage manger will be feeding information to whom ever is in the dimmer room to correctly control the lights.

 

ES Stage 

The ES stage is in the ES theater located on the right hand side. The stage takes up most of the room in the theater specially when the extend cat walk stage is fully expanded.

This specific stage is called a catwalk having the audience on three sides surrounding the stage. Most commonly used for modelling and prop-based performances. This specific stage can have the catwalk reclined turning it back into a standard stage with the audience only in front instead of all three sides.

The purpose of the extend stage is to have a variety of shows and different directing opportunities, it also adds more stage space for bigger productions.

 

ES Seating 

Rising and reclining seats are at the back of the theater on the opposite side facing the stage. There are rising seating on the side near the doors of the theater.

Having reclining and rising seats saves space in the theater opening the room for other activities. But it also give different seating options and arrangements, giving the director different opportunities for staging.  The seats come out from the wall creating a bleacher like seating, but then recline back into the wall opening the space back up.

The seats and where the seats are arranged decides what view the audience is going to see the show in, this can change a perspective of the show. So, the seating arrangement needs to be mindful of each seat and where its sat in order for each of the audience members to equally experience the show.