The Department of Theatre and Dance is back and ready to launch into the second show in our spring lineup: Edges. Beautifully crafted by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and directed by Dr. Scott Phillips, this song cycle takes the audience through the universal challenges of growing up – a journey riddled with isolation, fear, kinship, and self-discovery. As the opening song reveals, the heart lies in both, who people truly are and who they have the potential to become. How does one create an environment that visually captures these evocative themes with the audience mere feet away from the performers? We connected with Scenographic Designer, Katie Wolfe and Costume Designer, Emma Fox to understand their processes for defining the vision in the theatre’s intimate Blackbox space.
The world of a theatre production is always a composition of creativity and carefully selected elements. Sound is one of them. We reached out to Andrew Lynch – new professor in the Auburn University Theatre and Dance (AUTD) Department and sound designer for Twelfth Night – as well as Annabell Mallard, an AUTD student and the assistant sound designer for the show, to discover more about sound design and their process for creating the auditory world of Twelfth Night, the first spring show of our “& Dance” season.
Life is full of patterns–mysterious twists and turns that often don’t make sense until we look back at where we have been. Ashley Butler, the director of Auburn University Theatre and Dance’s upcoming musical, Pippin, is one example of how life sometimes leads us back to places previously traveled. Pippin is Butler’s first directed musical at Auburn on the Telfair Peet mainstage–a stage she herself traversed as an Auburn theatre student in her college days.
