Peter pan

Peter Pan - 2018 -

Birmingham Children’s Theatre - Mainstage

Director: Brandon Bruce

Scenic Designer: Stephen Fister

Lighting Designer: James Arakas

Costume Designer: Brittany Dee Bodley

Puppet Designer: Cedwan Hooks

stage floor and 5 trap doors

Early on in the design process, our director wanted actors and props to come from trap doors in the stage. This was a challenge because our regular stage floor does not have any trap doors in it. Thankfully our apron is on a hydraulic lift. Since our stage floor can lower, we were able to lower it to 9’ below the stage to build a “trap room” and create our own stage floor. Our designer wanted the floor to be in the shape of the moon and have a large arc cut in it. Since we were building a new stage floor, this wasn’t a problem to cut a large arc in the floor. It was decided early on in rehearsals that our director needed 5 different trap doors in order to carry out the vision he had for the show. There were 2 “sewer drain” style trap doors and 3 rectangular traps varying in size.

Ground plan view of the set with final paint treatment.

Our normal stage floor is a trapezoidal shape.

The stage floor lowered to 9’ below and the first row of stud walls being installed.

Leading our crew of carpenters installing the stud-walls and platforms.

Front view of stud-walls and platforms being installed.

All of the stock 4’x8’ platforms and front arc platforms installed and ready for trap door platforms to be installed.

Now that all of the platforms are installed, they’re ready for paint!