Nick Makes Awesome Flats
So, Teechers is finally over. We can all now sit back, relax, and reflect on just how awesome a job we all actually did in spite of a very not-easy road to get there involving some of us (aka Nick the Awesome Stage Manager Person) fighting wind, rain, hail, snow, B&Q, ScrewFix, the SU, the AU, the Lincoln traffic light control centre, flat batteries and just about everything else in order to build the sets.
Which, because I’m the Awesome Stage Manager Person, actually look almost exactly the same as the design drawings. They fold down into easily moveable packs which fit at least two to a small car, and with a bit of simple assembly and some bolting together turn into 80cm wide, 2.4m high wheeled flats with Velcro tags suitable for attaching all manner of pre-printed scenery to.
Of course, it would be silly for me to take all the credit - all I did was come up with more or less the right design. A huge thanks must also go to Dave for various suggestions, stopping me doing some silly things, a helpful hand whilst waving bits of wood around, and providing transport and somewhere to build the flats in the pissing rain. Another huge thanks must go to Anita for actually designing all of the fronts (Visible in the gallery below) at short notice, and to Claire for keeping me halfway sane whilst I was sat for 4 hours printing them all.
Apologies in advance for the terrible quality of the actual photos, I was taking snapshots when I could between actors being slow, and didn’t have time to properly white-balance or adjust my flash.
