SEAN DANIELS: The Set Trick in “Tinker to Evers to Chance”

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Here’s a question we get asked a lot – how do we do the wall tricks in Tinker To Evers To Chance?

The walls are actually a thin fabric treated so that light from the front makes it looks solid, BUT lights from behind reveals it to be translucent.

The fabric is stretched tight, to appear as a wall, but the reality is you could push thru it.

Lit from the front:

set pic 1
James Craven and Emily Kitchens, with Randall Parsons’ set

 

Lit from behind:

set pic 2

Pretty cool, huh?

Find out more about the show at:

http://www.mrt.org/show/tinker-evers-chance

-Sean Daniels, Director & MRT Artistic Director