The Birds – Theatre Design Project (BDA_IE08)
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The Birds – Theatre Design Project (BDA_IE08) |
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| My project
is an interpretation of the Aristophane’s play ‘The Birds’. I wanted to
design for a performance that would be surreal, humorous and fun and
which would inspire laughter in a contemporary audience today. My design
contains elements of cabaret and it is staged in a surreal nite-club
style environment, with many of the bird characters playing the parts of
performing drag acts. The performance will involve an all-male cast with
the only female character being ‘Baelia’.The concept is essentially a
show within a show, with members of the cast masquerading as an ‘on
stage’ audience. A central door and cascading underlit steps provide a
dramatic entrance for the Bird characters as they are introduced to the
audience. The arches and surrounding velvet fabric of the set hint at
the idea of a birdcage and suggest a world encapsulated within. The
motif on the floor is a reference to a suggestion in the script of how
to measure air space. These markings on the floor also allude to roads
and pathways and aid the direction of the cast.
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