The Witches of Eastwick
5th, 6th and 7th November 2015
PAUL MCCARTNEY AUDITORIUM, LIPA
A musical comedy by JOHN DEMPSEY and DANA P ROWE
Frustrated and bored by their mundane lives, three women become besotted with a charismatic and mysterious man who appears suddenly in their small town. Darryl Van Horne embodies their shared longing and desire for all manner of man in one man but displays unnerving, devil-like characteristics.
Seducing each of the women, Darryl teaches them how to unlock their hidden magical powers, though their new unorthodox lifestyle scandalises the town. As their powers start to be used for increasingly sinister purposes, events spiral out of control and the women come to realise that Darryls influence is corrupting them and everyone he comes into contact with. They must use their new-found strength to exile him from their lives.
Performed by third-year Dance students.
All images copyright of Sam Heath and the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
On the production, I was a scenic painter. I was involved in:
- painting the fences grey
- painting the fences grey
- priming the fronts of the static houses
- priming the moon
- cutting up polysterene for the moon
- priming the steps
- painting the door frames block pastel colours
- priming the books then helping add final details to them
- painting the jetty posts grey
- painting the top of the pottery table yellow
- painting the stage floor with two coats of purple then one coat of the drip effect with two shades of grey
- painting the front of the moving houses light grey
- painting the roofs of the houses purple
- painting the chandelier yellow then gold
- painting the picture frames yellow then gold
- painting the flag pole grey
- painting the benches black
- stapling gels in one of the church windows
- painting the underneath of all the houses grey
- wood graining the floor of one of the moving houses
- priming the door of the large house
