Technical Elements

Technical elements in a show help to relegate the aroma of the audience's appeal. It is what makes the audience say interested with the play throughout the entire run of it. It is what makes the crowd able to say: "Yea that was a great play compared to the movie that we saw last night". This is what commonly the theater competes with, the movies and that area of acting and such. Therefore, the technical elements onstage are always competing to be better than that of the actual Hollywood elements. There are many technical elements in a play such as lighting, makeup, pyrotechnics, scene changes, prop usage, and sword or hand to hand combat. For the shows that we went to many of these things helped to captivate the audience's attention for the span of the 2 hours. Such as scene changes, lighting and prop usage for STOMP and Peter Pan. Even the makeup played an essential part in Peter Pan with Captain Hook. In our own production of Mulan Jr. we haven't really started working on much other than our prop usage sword combat between Captain Shang and Shan-Yu and some make-up. Thus we have alot of work to do. Honestly, I don't think we will have any problems with these elements of technical things. I don't udnerestimate the knowledge of our instructors and believe that we will be able to fill in all the necessary parts of the show's technical aspect with ease. Besides, no matter what, the Show MUST GO ON!!! =)