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Fun Things to Know about Theatre
Fun Things to Know about Theatre
How did they move that stone wall so fast?
It's not really stone. Set painters use many ingenious effects on wood and canvas to make the canvas and wood of a set look like bricks, stone, marble, ivy, wallpaper and more. That way, the sets are light and can be easily moved and changed.

The way something is painted can trick the eye of the audience into thinking that a corrugated cardboard tube is a strong marble pillar, or painted papier-mâché is a sturdy stonewall.

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