Feast for your eyes
- POSTED ON: 5 Aug, 2021
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- POSTED BY: Madhumitha Srinivasan
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The main components of any stage production are the actors and crew. The acting, music, dialogues/songs are what form the core of a performance. What add to the spectacle though are the visual elements: set design, costumes, makeup, lighting, props, and so on.
Here’s a look at some of them:
Costume:
(Costumes from the Broadway musical “The Phantom of the Opera”. Photo: AP)
Lighting:
(Lighting is an essential part of the circus-type performance show of Cirque du Soleil.)
Makeup:
(Actors wearing cat makeup and hair in the musical production “Cats”.)
Prop:
(A scene from “War Horse, a production that uses life-sized horse puppets to bring the animals alive on stage.)
Set design:
(A scene from “Porgy and Bess”, an English National Opera Production.)