scenic preliminary design packet spring 2009 new horizons provides playwrights and directors alike...
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Scenic Preliminary Design Packet Spring 2009
New Horizons provides playwrights and directors alike with the unique opportunity to explore new works in theatre. Florida State’s new works festival
allows both thespians and audience members to reveal new truths, discover new journeys, and tell new stories. In a time when society can be so
synthesized, it is a good reminder to us all that the simple act of story telling can still be powerful and moving.
Our challenge then is to have a cohesive festival while still providing a unique yet simple background for each play to tell it’s story. This festival is not about
creating six new worlds, but rather it is about setting a mental and visual tone.
Fellow TravelersConcept Development
A focus on the people—their “sins” are made bad only after others have witnessed it.Draw attention to their flash back scenes—
physically centralize these actions This is a place where no one stays—it is just
a stop along our journeys.
Fellow TravelersGround Plan
Fellow TravelersSection
Fellow TravelersProp Research
May FlyConcept Development
Brownstone in the 50s-creating the look of an apartment.
Interior decorating meets the Lab theatre-functional and theatrical.
May FlyGround Plan
May FlySection
May FlyProp Research
Doomsday ParadeConcept Development
The state of memory.Unclear recollections of a night, with a
humorous touch. A farce of a convenient store in Jersey.
Doomsday ParadeGround Plan
Doomsday ParadeSection
Doomsday ParadeProps Research
Trapezium Concept Development
A power struggle between Webb and TillyThe furniture arrangements facilitate the power
in the room and relationship. Forcing people to be in a certain place or
situation
Trapezium Ground Plan
Trapezium Section
TrapeziumProp Research
Nocturnal AdmissionsConcept Development
A story of average college room-mates.Jameson is not an overly stereotypical jock.Tristan is not a study case for repressed
homosexuality. These boys could be someone you know. Claustrophobic college dorm room-feel.
Nocturnal AdmissionsGround Plan
Nocturnal AdmissionsSection
Nocturnal AdmissionsProp Research
Wall flowersConcept Development
A focus on movement more supported through a blank slate than through scenic dictation.Focus on projections
WallflowersProp Research