Example Projects (included in package)

(gunman.osp)
The Shadow of a Gunman
This example creates a setting suitable for this play. It uses an overlaid groundplan to build the set on the stage of the Cochrane Theatre piece by piece

(festlear.osp)
King Lear
Stratford Festival Theatre, 1985
The first of three models showing and comparing different productions of the play in three very different theatres.  Stratford Festival Theatre is a thrust stage in a two level amphitheatre.

(comlear.osp)
King Lear
Compass Theatre at Glasgow Theatre Royal
The second of three models comparing the spatial demands of three different theatres.  The Theatre Royal is a typical Victorian proscenium arch theatre with four levels of audience.

 (toplear.osp)
King Lear
RSC at The Other Place, 1988
The last of the three models comparing the same play in different spaces.  The Other Place is a split level box studio with the audience on three or four sides.
(compare.osp)
King Lear
A comparison of the volume space occupied by the three theatres.		 (compare_stage.osp)
King Lear
A comparison of the performance areas of the three theatres

(shutter.osp)
An example using the tracking, flying and lighting ability of openStages to show the effect of changing between three sets of wings and borders

 (twin_revolve.osp)
An example showing the possibilities when using simple pieces of scenery on twin revolves.
(KL11.osp)
The tutorial included with the help files		 (audience_contract.osp)
A model created to explore the possibilities afforded by available elements in a given space, the Boilerhouse at Royal Holloway College. This was for a module being taught so that the students could be included in the decisions that were needed.
(coordinates.osp)
A model to help explain the relationship of 3-D cartesian coordinates to the traditional marking out of a proscenium stage.		 (talk.osp)
A model created to introduce the elements of openStages to students and at demonstrations
A model of "The Winter's Tale" designed for the Ludlow Festival in 2003. A preliminary model of "The Merchant of Venice" designed for the Ludlow Festival in 2003.
A recreation of the start of the induction scene for the 1978 production of "The Taming of the Shrew" for the RSC at the Stratford Memorial Theatre. The moment when the intial settings have disappeared and the hunters surround ChristopherSly. "The Taming of the Shrew", 1978, Stratford Memorial Theatre.
 
An experiment with shadows and transparent textures. This uses the model for the Cottesloe theatre.