{"id":28971,"date":"2017-03-30T17:47:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T21:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=28971"},"modified":"2017-03-30T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T21:54:20","slug":"willy-wonka-production-is-a-spectacle-to-behold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/willy-wonka-production-is-a-spectacle-to-behold\/","title":{"rendered":"Willy Wonka production is a spectacle to behold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roald Dahl\u2019s Willy Wonka<\/em> may be the most ambitious production brought to the Algonquin Theatre stage by the Huntsville Festival of the Arts and the Rotary Club of Huntsville yet.<\/p>\n

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Breathing life into the words of Roald Dahl, beloved children’s author and master of nonsense, requires extreme imagination and this production delivers.<\/p>\n

The talent of the multi-aged cast – from young children to seniors (see the full cast list at the bottom of this page) – and their sometimes fantastical costumes brings the characters to life on stage. To create what is often a surreal background for those characters is the job of the set design team, who work for months behind the scenes to construct a believable world for them to move in. For a script that has scenes both around the globe and in a sprawling candy factory, it’s a challenging task but the set design team has gone above and beyond.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to get as close as possible to (director Sarah Vanasse’s<\/a><\/span>) vision,” says the show’s set designer, Janet Copland, who began designing sets four-and-a-half years ago after retiring from teaching. She quickly discovered that one of the easiest ways to convey set design to both the build team and the cast is to create 3D models. It worked particularly well for this production because of its complexity.<\/p>\n

“It’s much easier to see what’s going on in my head and makes everyone’s life easier,” says Copland. “I showed (the set builders) the model and let them decide what they\u2019d like to do. It\u2019s been a big team effort. We got it all done and then had fun of getting it into the theatre. These things are 12 feet high.”<\/p>\n\n\t\t