Tick<\/a>\u201d and now has entered the world of Lab Shows. Something different Hardnett noticed is the heavily collaborative nature of the Lab Shows and all of the work that goes into bringing these stories to life.<\/p>\nBlair Bernard is a senior theatre performance major and the director of \u201cTwo Sisters and a Piano.\u201d The cast and crew of the show have been working on this play for the past six weeks, and Bernard admitted that the rehearsal process has been draining.<\/p>\n
\u201cKudos to all the directors who have done lab shows and have done it twice,\u201d Bernard said. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m really excited for people to see it because a lot of hands-on work went into it and a lot of hours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bernard, with her face and arms covered in paint, talked about the days of work she and three others did painting, designing and building the set. One of the painters on the small team even handmade stamps to add designs and mosaic tiling to the set.<\/p>\n
The play is set during Fidel Castro\u2019s reign in Cuba, with a lot of politics and danger swarming around the characters.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think ultimately what was most important to me with the script was the relationship of having a sister throughout everything,\u201d said Bernard.<\/p>\n
Bernard\u2019s relationship with her own sister is important to her, and she said that she doesn\u2019t know where she\u2019d be without her. The theme of family has made itself prominent during the process.<\/p>\n
Creating a world on stage takes a lot of work and forethought. Though she took a directing class and has a lot of experience working on a film set, Bernard said nothing could\u2019ve prepared her for both the amount of effort and freedom that came with directing a show.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that when you read a script, you don\u2019t understand how much freedom you actually have when creating the life of the play,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s been really rewarding to kind of know that, in a way, I\u2019ve fabricated these characters personally. I had a vision for them and I have aspirations for them, and I hope they inspire people and entertain people.\u201d<\/p>\n
From handpainting wallpaper to building walls and a set, the entire process has been very intentional.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s more tedious than I could have ever imagined,\u201d Bernard said. \u201cI can only imagine how the actors and the directors feel on a Mainstage.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the end of the day, Bernard hopes that audiences will recognize the time and effort the entire cast and crew has put into this play.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all are trying new things before big changes in our lives,\u201d she said. \u201cTrying your best is really a lost art, [because] what else can you do?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo Sisters and a Piano\u201d opens Tuesday, March 24. For tickets<\/a> and more information, visit the LSU Theatre website.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source lsureveille.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Producing a play isn\u2019t easy, especially while being in school and dealing with the everyday responsibilities of college. But every year, LSU Theatre students produce plays that hold the attention of the LSU population and the wider Baton Rouge area. The last Lab Show of the year is \u201cTwo Sisters and a Piano.\u201d The Pulitzer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2343351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2343350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/LSU-Lab-Show-Two-Sisters-and-a-Piano-portrays-love.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2343352,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343350\/revisions\/2343352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2343351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}