Staging - The Menhirs

My scenic design for Godspell is minimalist: I am using essentially the same black box set that Agnes of God will use. But I'll be incorporating six "things" on stage that all fit together, and which store props and costumes. They'll be six to seven feet tall, and will likely be about two feet wide, but they'll be wedge-shaped, like slices of pie.

So, in adding my blocking to the script, I discovered that I had to name these damned things. Objects, wedges, pie pieces, units, whatever. None seemed right.

Then I remembered something from my youth: Asterix and Obelix, the cartoon characters. Well, particularly Obelix, because he carried around large stone objects for a living. The name escaped me for a while until I hit Google and got the name: menhirs. It essentially means "long stone".

And even though they won't look like stones, I at least have a name to hang on these damned things.

- Sean