Backstage

Poster

No drama group, amateur or professional, would be able to deliver a production to you without hard work from an exceptional back stage crew and the Western Players are no different.

Every show is down to lots of people who work behind the scenes that never get to take their bow and often don’t get the wonderful praise they deserve. To give you an idea of the number of people involved, here are some of the roles that are needed for every show:

Director

Production Co-ordinator

Stage Manager

Props team

Sound Engineer

Lighting Engineer

Continuity prompt

Publicity

Ticket Sales

Box Office

And that is just on a show night! In the months building up to show week you need a great team to design and build the set. If you’d like to get involved in any of the areas above please get in touch.

We want everyone to know how hard the guys and girls behind the scenes work.

To try and achieve that, we produced this short mini-documentary to highlight everything that happens before a play can get onto the stage.

Please give it a watch so you can see how much work goes into getting a show ready before you guys, the audience, get to enjoy the show.