Democratization!
One thing we have found as we go along on this crazy journey called Founding and Running a Theater is that there is precious little information out there for us to use. Conventional theater techniques are useful to a point, but we are outdoors, and our stuff has to be a little tougher, travel a little better, and be a versatile and cost-effective as possible. For Romeo & Juliet, we determined we needed some acting (or rehearsal) cubes to make the bed and biers, but every method we could find involved either smaller cubes than we needed, or if brought to scale would make the entire rig weigh more than the Eiffel Tower.
Okay, maybe not that heavy, but it was going to be rough for a limited crew to set up the bedroom and then convert it to the biers.
A little Googling turned up a cached, incomplete PDF that spoke of wondrous things, lightweight cubes made of foam! So we thought about it, discussed amongst ourselves, and then Thomas, Larry, and whomever else showed for crew those couple days made some pretty dang awesome acting cubes. So, for your further edification, we present NFDC’s first Instructable, an online guide to making something, for our Lightweight Acting Cubes.
