<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I did Summer Stock at a Tent Theater in-the-round, and we had great productions of </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Driving Miss Daisy (with a Turntable)</div><div class="">You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown</div><div class="">A View from the Bridge</div><div class="">Round and Round the Garden (Ackbourne)</div><div class="">Playboy of the Western World</div><div class="">Jungle Book</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I saw a great production of The Cuckoo’s Nest in the round, but that takes some planning.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Pretty much any musical review works well this way. Mysteries are tough. </div><div class="">Our rule was no piece of scenery or furniture more than 3’ high. YMMV depending on your sightlines.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Our tent had the advantage of having 6 aisles - 4 in the corners that were stairs up to the top of the raked seating areas, and 2 on the sides (say, 3 o’clock and 6 o’clock) that ran off flat - one to the “Lobby”, and one to our “Backstage” area. Aisles can be used as playing areas, and if you have some that are comprised of stairs, particularly up to widely visible landing at the top, that’s extra helpful.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve used the “Clock” idea when blocking the show - setting some landmark like an aisle or the Light Booth or the Main Entrance as 12, and numbering around the clock from there.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Another method is to number the aisles, and reference everything off of those numbers. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In my tent, we used a combination, setting the light booth at one end as 12 o’clock, and numbering the aisles with their corresponding clock numbers - 1,3,5,7,9,11</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">June Abernathy</div><div class="">AEA Stage Manager</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 26, 2017, at 3:00 PM,"Miller, Daniel" <<a href="mailto:DaMiller@dwu.edu" class="">DaMiller@dwu.edu</a>> wrote:</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><br class="">Can anyone give me suggestions on good theatre-in-the-round productions they have seen?<br class=""><br class="">Daniel L. Miller<br class="">Associate Professor of Theatre<br class="">Dakota Wesleyan University</blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>