The Mind Creative March 2014
If you thought that it is a group of people rehearsing or performing
a play, you would be right. But if you thought that the activity is
taking place in a warehouse or factory, you would be wrong. It is
actually a set for the production of a play called Kinky Boots, which,
appropriately enough happens in a shoe factory. (I see that the Tony
winner is due to open in Toronto next month.)
The metal structures, exposed iron, rivets, tinted glass, mobile
staircase, elevated platform, and the iron trusses are real, not
painted plywood. In another scene in the same play the set pieces
change giving way to other structures. It is a lot of grunt work—
assembling,