What does it take to put on a Theatre production...lighting...props.... costumes...help!?

I have a project to do on presenting a play and I have to think about all the details of putting on a production...what do I need to consider?

What does it take to put on a Theatre production...lighting...props.... costumes...help!?plays

For the design elements your basics are lighting, sound, costumes, hair, makeup, properties, and of course scenic elements.

Depending on the production, you might also have projections or special effects (pyrotechnics, fight choreography, etc.)

If you want to get into staffing, you also have a stage manager, properties master, master electrician, sound engineer, wardrobe master, and the various crews. In small theatres, of course, you have people pulling double or triple duty on these things, but these are all jobs that need doing.

Generally you start out with a director and a theatre. They bring in a stage manager, and do casting. At the same time, designers are brought in and they begin designing the show as the casting is done. The actors are chosen and rehearsals begin. Fittings are done and the costume, scenic, and props shops start working on their tasks. The lighting and sound designers design their stuff and pass it along to be set up by the master electrician and sound engineer. The set, costumes, and props are loaded into the theatre, and when that's all set up the technical rehearsals begin. First it's just the actors getting used to the stage, while the stage manager learns the light and sound cues and calls them. After a few of those rehearsals, you begin dress rehearsals, with the actors in costume. These end up being run as though they were performances. After a couple dress rehearsals, you start performance and you have a show!

What does it take to put on a Theatre production...lighting...props.... costumes...help!?opera ticket opera theater

Cost and type of space, how to adapt the staging of the text to the room availible. Do you need to edit the play to meet a performance time which is realistic? How will you interpret the setting from what is indicated in the written text? for example will your space mean the play is better in the round or do you have a traditional procenium arch stage?

How will you get props (asking around? asking for loans from local buisness?). Publicity is a biggie, how are you going to promote through posters and flyers, how do you cover costs?

will you be giving concessions to OAPs, are you going to find sponsorship from local buisness to pay for the printing (by putting an advertisment for them on your flyer)?

Music, will it be live or fed over the sound desk? Are you lighting in an interprative way so it maximises the effect of the action on stage? What kind of effects are you trying to elicit.

Are you having music playing (in keeping with the play) whilst the audience enter. Costumes, are you doing a contempary piece or is it historic, would you hire from your local theatres costume dept? these are basic things we had to consider whilst putting on a production for a drama degree, theres lots more of course

good luck
A producer gets a show/ script/ score and the budget. He then gets a production manager and director.

A set designer then designs a set. The design is then sent to the drafts man how works out how to build it and make the parts work both in the theater and in the truck so it can be moved or toured.

They then works with the costume and or wig designer then tell their staff what to make

a lighting designer than makes a design and gives it to a production electrician (LX) how then works out how to make the design work and works with the production manager to find the hire company to supply the equipment. The prod LX then starts prepping the kit.

The sound designer works with the director to find out the required sound effects and finds them

The director works with the cast to work out how they should do there thing with stage management support. Stage mother mount keep the rest of the team informed of any changes during rehearsals (they happen lots) and get props as needed

1 week before opening a master carpenter instructs the crew how to build the set, the prod LX works with the lx crew to get the lighting rig in the air and sound rig speakers as needed.

The LX designers then focus the rig with the lx crew. The LX designer then works with the prod LX to start programming the lighting desk to the required lighting stats.

the cast then start going throw the show at slow pace so that wardrobe props lighting, sound and stage mother mother work out how to do there thing any big scein changes are ran over and over agene till it works. (This is normally when the director throws all his toys out of his pram and changes every thing) there is then dress rehearsals for the cast then it opens

Fights and like dances and worked out in rehuresl piro and flying is put in at tech rehearsals