There's more to getting ready for Drama

Trees start to take shape in classroom work area

There is more than reading your lines or singing a tune to get ready for a Drama Club presentation.

All sorts of preparations are needed: Adjusting the lighting, checking the mike sounds for each actor, preparing special effects such as a fog machine and laser lights, making the costumes and many other tasks which playgoers take for granted.

For a play called “Into the Woods” you of course will need some trees. That, as you will see, is a large, time-consuming project. Trees are first constructed using paper mache and then painted.

Click here to see a gallery of photos to show how the trees are made.

Future articles on Saint Paul TODAY will show other aspects of the play production.