Just So Set Design
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Just So Set Design

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In this rendering, you are looking at the primary set for the jungle, with an image being projected on the cyclorama. We can project on the waterfall and the painted pool at its base to give them animation in key scenes.
Here you see the components more clearly. The cyclorama is all the way upstage. A cut portal is just downstage framing it. Downstage more are some stairs providing access from the platforms to center-stage, and some cutout facings reinforcing the jungle motif.

This design draws heavily from the artwork of Henri Rousseau.

This groundplan shows the various levels in relation to escape stairs and masking, as well as the location of the two traps planned for use in the production. The intention is to allow a lot of room for dance and movement.
At the beginning and end of the show, we are in an attic bedroom. I experimented with a flown window unit. It did not line up well with the cyclorama for much of the house. I pivoted to a projected window image instead. You see elements of a bedroom including a trap SR and a trunk SL which is open below to another trap. We will shuffle this layout around a bit as Fran and the company work out their staging.
The bookcase might become some sort of prop or costume piece.
This is the same cyc projection mage that is shown earlier in this post. The reset of the set is in blueout. The cyc is a projection surface that can be whatever we wish.
The platorm design includes two 45-degree hooks inward at midstage. These allow entrance almost to CS. The stage-left entrance is shown here as seen from up-stage-right.