The weekend work calls

The weekend was a productive one at Theatre UNI.

The costume studio had a work call to make progress on the fall semester shows. Nearly eighteen students joined Amy RohrBerg (costume designer and technical director for Midsummer), Carol Colburn (costume designer and technical director for Cloud 9) and Linda Grimm (shop supervisor) for six hours of cutting, pinning, and stitching.

Upstairs in the theatres, Eric Lange (department head and artistic director) built platforms for seating in the Bertha Martin Theatre and Leonard Curtis worked on his scenery for Cloud 9. Meanwhile, Ron Koinzan (Theatre UNI technical director) took six students to move a large collection of chairs from one storage location in the basement of a building in downtown Cedar Falls to a new location in a building closer to the University. I tagged along to take photos of the chairs as they were being loaded onto the truck to begin a pictorial inventory of furniture owned by Theatre UNI. What better time to do so than when we’re in the process of moving.

Moving chairs is just the beginning. Later in the semester, we will continue be moving more furniture, platforms, stairs, doors and other large pieces while culling. While many of us are by nature packrats, there comes a time when we must let go of something because there is just not enough space.

Lunch for the company was a cook-out on the loading dock of the theatre. The partner of a colleague helped me grill burgers and brats that were quickly consumed, along with several bags of chips, potato salad, carrots, grapes and Linda’s famous caramel brownies.

On Sunday, rehearsals were held for Cloud 9 and Midsummer. Another week begins.