Door Shakespeare

Door Shakespeare

June 2nd:

I arrived up in Door County at around ten p.m and met Drew and Mark, they showed me the place where we would be staying for the night and was given a brief layout of the town and our plan of action for the next couple of days. I also brought up prop pieces for Door Shakespeare to use in shows, mostly pieces for Loves Labour's Lost.

June 3rd:

My first official day was spent working with Drew, Mark and Jason; the director of Macbeth, unloading the prop barn and finding pieces that were useful and rearranging the rest of the barn to make  it easier to navigate Through. After that was sorted through, Drew and I began to mulch the space and voms while Michael and Mark worked on leveling the risers for the audience. We then spent our night in the dressing room,

June 4th:

We all took the discarded wood over to a pit area to make a bonfire, and that took a majority of the day while we also were moving trash over to a dump area near the lodge. Jason met back up with us later after a meeting with Amy to inform us that we didn't have the right amount of seats for audience members and we made our way over to space to figure a way to include more seats, after we decided, Michael and Mark worked on risers while Drew and I went around collecting stumps for the space and the rest of the area.

June 5th:

Our last day on the job we were doing touch ups on anything that we missed. Drew and I worked on finding branches for pathways and mulching whatever areas needed extra work. We also finished taking apart the spaces old stage and transported the wood back to the barn and covered the area with extra mulch. We finished up around 2:30.

Working up at Door Shakespeare for these few days was helpful because we got to see things that were used for old shows that didn't even make sense and were disregarded probably after only one use and also the types of places where you could possibly put on shows. It was also eye opening to see how many people in the community knew about Door Shakespeare and how passionate they were about the people who work to bring them this type of theater. Dan, Amy and Jason were a pleasure to work and very easy to get along with and they gave us a lot of feedback about the work we were doing and the type of work they hope to be doing in years to come. This was definitely an experience that has gotten me excited to start doing more work outside of Iowa State and perhaps even starting up projects of my own.