Sounds like something you'd take expensive medicine to cure, doesn't it.
I'm doing a production of Sweet Smell of Success and have decided to go
with
four periaktoi (tall three or four sided columns, each side different, if
you don't know what they are) for part of the rapidly changing scenery.
I'm
planning on putting several lighted signs on one of the periaktoi but am
not
sure how to provide power to run the lamps. The peris will be on full
swivel
casters, moving about the stage, so I can't just run a line from an
electric
or from a floor socket. Does anyone know if an inverter with a marine
battery might work for me? I'd want pretty bright lights and would
probably
have at least one of the signs flash, one light letters sequentially, one
with a single letter that keeps blinking out. I'm talking of a four sided
peri for the signs, one sign to a side. The same lights could, I suppose,
be
rigged to light all four sides. I have four nightclub scenes, each in a
different club.
I'm thinking of making the periaktoi from luan, not muslin. Have seen too
many problems with irregularly shaped flats made the old muslin way. Does
anyone think that going with four sides will present much of a different
construction issue than going with the classic three sided peri?
Thanks.
Michael
p.s. how can the guy who's so interested in that Em Eye 5 thing be
persuaded
to take his musings to a political conspiracy newsgroup? It's getting real
old. Aren't these things moderated anymore?
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