Theater people! Does "black box theater" mean anything to you?

I'm not a theater person, but yes. It's a plain room, painted all black, so you can put the audience and stage/performers however you want.

Cool. Thanks!

I hope the email is helpful when you do read it, ita.

Oh, I bet there's lighting capacity in there, too. (See? Not a theater person. A person who goes to theater.)

I hope the email is helpful when you do read it, ita.

So I went and read it, because I'm an adult who can handle things (right???), and it said approximately zero. Mostly "he will evaluate you when you go to your appointment." But at least he has "She's disgruntled and not a drug-seeker" from a professional, so hopefully that doesn't count against me.

Black box theatres are usually smaller, and in places (like a storefront, or an old warehouse) where you wouldn't usually expect a theatre to be. There are usually some risers and a bunch of stackable chairs so that you can rearrange it in various ways, depending on the production -- you can have the audience sitting in rows facing a stage, or arrange the chairs in a circle with the play going on in the middle, or whatever. Generally fairly basic lighting and sound system, and usually lots of wires running everywhere to run all of that stuff, since it gets set up differently for each production and there's not much that you can permanently install. Generally a sort of grid thing (I forget the technical name) suspended from the ceiling, that you can attach lights to.

Oh, and I once worked on a student production in a black box theatre that was in the basement of a dorm, and there were pillars in the middle of the audience, and two on the stage, supporting the load-bearing walls of the building. We managed to find some ways to incorporate the ones on the stage into the set design, but the ones in the audience were just a pain all around.

Timelies all!

It's pretty warm here. Trying not to fall asleep.

Black box is a generic term used for theatres with flexible stage/seating arrangements. They aren't always black, even.

The plan was to make chili today, but I altered it to pumpkin chili. Smells yummy. It is a bit on the spicy side. Well, very much on the spicy side. Ooops.

Pumpkin chili! That sounds interesting.

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