Sunday, November 02, 2008
Bungees For Woyzeck | Never one to shrink from technically challenging productions, executive producer Joe Melillo has brought Gsli rn Gardarsson's Icelandic production... | Oct 2008
Live Design: "Never one to shrink from technically challenging productions, executive producer Joe Melillo has brought Gísli Örn Gardarsson's Icelandic production of Georg Büchner's tragic play, Woyzeck, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music's (BAM) Next Wave Festival, October 15 to 18. The challenges for the production team include a bungee-jumping actor who also swings from a trapeze and a tank of water running around a raised section of custom steel decks on stage with a framework of PVC pipe. Sapsis Rigging provided the truss, with Bill Sapsis and Mike Yocum on site for the installation."
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I think it's great that theatre is leaping into more technically complex productions. Instead of being limited by intimidating challenges, theatre is starting to explore new and different methods of effects.
There's not really anything exactly new in this show...what's impressive is the structural design and the fact that they had enough money to do all this stuff. It's pretty cool that they've got a guy bungee jumping from a 72' span, that must be some beefy truss. But, like I said, none of this is new technology.
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