Introduction to Production

CHAPTER 9Production Crews

Assembling the Dream

STAGEHANDS

It would only be a matter of time before we came full circle in our theatre narrative in order to describe the assembly of a theatre production from its respective parts. In Chapter 1 we laid out the organizational chart (Figure 0.1). Thereafter we traced a path for the development of the dream. In one sense we have been placing the cart before the horse. The allusion is that we have been rehearsing, building, and gathering all the components to arrive at a moment of realization when we will soon see the script and/or score come to life in all its manifestations. Heretofore, we have been discussing the production in the abstract.

Now we are at the point where the producer’s dream ...