Venue: Space Theater. DCTC.
Date: March, 2003.
Client: Israel Hicks, Director.
Staged in-the-round, the world of this script is steeped in the vintage charm of faded glory. The necessity for a parlor space and bedroom space, public and private respectively, presented the biggest challenge because the production was staged in the round, with audience on all sides of the arena.
We envisioned the apartment floor as a lady's fan - radiating floorboards, worn through from age, floating above a flagstone street. A wrought-iron balcony façade hung from the lighting grid, visually splitting the apartment in half, and evoking both the tenuousness of the characters’ relations and the outside world of New Orleans' French Quarter. We created translucent layers of space with a jagged curtain of string, evocative of Spanish moss, dripping down from the facade.
New Orleans’ French Quarter. Wrought iron architecture. “Ghosts Along the Mississippi,” Photography of Clarence Laughlin.
