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A Durable, Rough Texture Coating for Scenery and Props |
There’s no shortage of information about the ingredients used in texture coatings for scenery and props. Every stagecraft text offers detailed recipes, nearly every shop has a favorite “house blend,” and of course there’s always the wisdom of the Internet. Nevertheless, many of the texture coatings used in theatre suffer from two shortcomings: they can’t easily be built up into rich relief; and they tend to be fairly fragile. This article addresses those problems.
THE PROBLEM AND SOLUTION
The “Shadow Dance” segment of California State University-Pomona’s 1993 production Bends in the Road was set in a five-thousand-year-old tomb. The challenge was to give the wagon-mounted unit ...
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