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two days of set painting.
Painted piece by piece, the set was built piece by piece and moved to the stage in the back of Hostetter’s truck. “I had to do the flats on stage because they were so large I would never have been able to move them” to the theater, he explained. The two larger pieces were on rollers and Hostetter said, “in actuality there were not that heavy.”
He said actual assembly was not that complicated, needing “a day or day-and-a-half.”
The cabinetmaker said there is “certain knack to moving the pieces” and the able crew caught on fast.
With nine scenes, set movement is a major part of the entire production.
“The set crew showed up the last week of rehearsal and learned how to do it,” Hostetter said of the crew, Chris and John Moyles, David Mosher, Timothy Mahoney and Sarah Shorter.
As the lights went down on stage between each scene, a faint glimmer flickered on stage and five darkened crew members appear to move the huge castle walls into place. Hanging curtains and dropping tapestries or pushing the huge walls into position, Hostetter said the crew was often ready before the players.
The Rappahannock Players’ production of “The Lion in Whiter’’ will continue this weekend, with performances on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 6 and 7, at the Gay St. Theatre in Washington. Curtain time is 8 p.m. Tickets are $7.50. For more information, call the RAAC office (675-3193).
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