Cloud 9
| The play Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill contrasts changing climates of sexual expression, explores the roles of men and women, and examines what constitutes a marriage and a family. Act one takes place in Africa during the Victorian period. I wanted a design that would play up the absurdity of this male dominated world. | |
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| Renderings for act one | |
| In act two the same characters are placed in present day England. Below is the stage I designed. After doing several sketches of park playgrounds I developed the idea that the set could be a place where the characters could tangibly work on their sexual identity. The basic shapes of the playground are taken from the man and woman symbols. Here the characters could build symbolic representations of their relationships in the script. | |
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| The image above is an example of what models in 3D Studio look like before I add lighting effects. What you see here is a generic "world lighting" with arbitrary shading and no cast shadows. | |
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