SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR

PLAYERS THEATRE, McGill University

Nov. 2014

Designing a set for this “play within a play” was an ambitious project which garnered a number of positive reviews from critics of the play. The vision here was to bring together several design elements to delineate the surreal landscape of the characters from that of the plot of the play. The set design was more than a backdrop; it was the very medium through which the play’s visual effects were brought to life. Lighting, shadows, cardboard cut-outs and scrim screens: all design tools ingeniously applied to seamlessly articulate the themes and moods of the characters of this art-deco play.