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Hereford Amateur Pantomime Society

The Backstage Team

While the cast of a show are the people in the ‘Public Eye’, the Society have a dedicated team working behind the scenes, who provide the vital support needeed to produce a show.

Led by the Producer, who co-ordinates all the production requirements, the main backstage departments are Wardrobe, Props and Scenery.

Wardrobe

The Society has a costume stores which contains a vast range of both Principal and Chorus costumes, in a variety of styles and colours. For any one production costumes are both reused from stock, with any necessary alterations in trimmings and size, or made new.

we have a team of costume makers who, over a six to seven month period, prepare upwards of 200 costumes for a pantomime cast of 40 to 50 people.

Props

Props is an area which covers a large array of items, all the things carried by cast and items of stage dressing.

In recent years our props team have made items as varied as .. tankards, swords, a ‘battery hen’, and even a giant spider!

The props team are also responsible for looking after these items during the run of a show.

Scenery

The first job for the scenery department is to decide on the requirements for a show, as regards styles of scenery and any particular script requirements - such as working doors & windows, or raised platforms.

The scenery is normally hired from a professional company; we therefore co-ordinate with them to match our requirements with the sets available. Some special items of scenery, which may be peculiar to the script are occassionally made by the scenery team and a small stock of such items are held in storage.

During a show a stagecrew are responsible for setting the scenery and changing it during the show. The stagecrew are usually the first people into the theatre before a show - to arrange the scenery and set up cloths, lighting and special effects.

Our productions can range from as few as four different scenes, with some repeated, to as many as nine full stage scenes, with shorter ‘front of tabs’ scenes in between - to allow the stagecrew to change the main scenery.

A varied range of activities take place backstage during a show - and in the build up to it, giving those involved an interesting and exciting hobby.

Anyone with an interest in joining our Society, in any of these departments, would be made most welcome.

Stage Plan for ‘The King of Siam’s Palace’ in ‘Dick Whittington’