Case 457 by Kade Mendelowitz

Kade Mendelowitz
Theatrical Designer & Multimedia Artist
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PO Box 81522
Fairbanks, AK 99708 USA
Phone/Fax: (907) 455-9469

Case 457

One of the main challenges I have found with teaching Lighting Design to students, was that the students didn't get to watch a rehearsal to help them visualize the blocking. Videotaping a rehearsal was a great idea to combat this, but it's illegal if one doesn't own the rights for such activities.

I also wanted short plays for my beginning lighting students' to start with so they had no excuse to not read the play multiple times.

To this end, I have written three plays at present: Foxhole, Case 457 and A Night for Conversation.

Case 457 is a short (10-14 minute) comedy. I don't want to give a more descriptive synopsis or concept, as my hope is that students came come up with that on their own. Foxhole is available as an "Example" play. Extremely short, I have supplied an example Lighting Concept Paper, Color Key, Rough Plot, and Light Plot.

I've made these plays available for other Theatre faculty members to use for projects as well - I hope you find them useful. All I ask is that you give me proper credit; and I would greatly appreciate hearing how you find the plays work for your purposes!

*Case 457* costume designs by Anita Ashbaugh.

Ben	Raphael
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You may download the script here:

• PDF format (easy-to-print, 11 pages, 229k; pretty small)

• RTF (rich text format) - easy to edit, 76k; very small

You may download a PDF groundplan by clicking the image (2.3 meg; large if on a slow internet connection):