Preliminary Designs for the Set

You are looking at photographs taken of a preliminary scale model of the setting, designed by Cara Tougas. The images were taken as if you were sitting in the audience looking at the stage. Often designers do some sketches of their ideas for the set, but when they want to see how their ideas will look, they use a model to get a feel for how it will look on stage.

One of the challenges for this setting is that the play's scenes take place in several different locations and the changes in location happen frequently and quickly. Because of the Hermetic quality of the play, it was not possible or desirable to create a setting that was static or realistic.
Above you can see an early version of the set in which the designer was exploring the use of large shapes to define the playing space.
Here is the next generation of thinking about the set. You can see that the abstract images have a color treatment on them in this model. Also notice the figure that is used to give a sense of how an actor would look on this stage.
Here the color treatment is different.
This third generation of design came after conversations with the director, Margaret Larlham, and the Setting Advisor, Ralph Funicello. These shapes define the space but are smaller and some are movable by the actors.