Staging

The staging for We Will Rock You is a traverse staging and at either end we have a set of blocks that can be altered and adapted however we like for example adding a tier to make it taller or even longer. The layout is the following.

Picture - This is Killer Queens area where she performs her songs and her dialogue.

Picture - The opposite end of the stage we have The hospital and the Heartbreak hotel.

Having the staging blocks have come to our advantage for example Killer Queen is an overpowering character this needs to be reinforced through her staging. This goes the same to The hospital where its very bland and boring just what everyone in the play thinks about me (Scaramouch) and Galileo.

We also have a ramp from killer queens domain to the centre of the stage between the audience. The ramp looked brilliant as it gave flavour and contrast to the square blocks. Last lesson the girls who walk down the ramp have to wear heels and wanted to change it for there own safety, this is understandable but the ramp did look better. We changed it by adapting back to the square blocks. Before we did this we tried experimenting with a Matt on the ramp so it doesn't make it slippery but it looked ugly and not the style we were going for.

The staging is great and looks different but i feel as though there will be a slight restriction with the view. I expressed my thoughts to my teacher where she told me that we are providing an educational  show for our benefit to understand and experience the various layouts and staging we can have. If the audience have a restriction on the view they can come to both showings of the play.

The staging takes time to put up and once we thought the staging was going to stay we had an interference with an exam being taken in the studio, this did waste time dismantling and putting the staging back up but with a team effort the job was done in 20 minutes.