![village](https://s3.amazonaws.com/scenicandlighting/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/31232217/village1-1024x288.jpg)
KAT Company produces annually in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The venue is a proscenium house with a wide stage, low proscenium, and no movable flies. Beauty and the Beast is a show which wants to have a large variety of full-realized fanciful settings. To achieve this, the set consisted of three base-settings: The village, the forest, and the castle. These were changed easily using story-book flats. By simply turning the page on each unit, the next setting was displayed on stage.
Centered among these units upstage was a set of white drapes that received front-projections. The specific setting within the village or the castle or the forest was created by projecting media onto these curtains. For example, Belle entered the library of the castle through a large projected gothic wooden door, which then revealed thousands of books panning by her. She stopped at one shelf, reached into the curtain, and pulled out a single book to discuss from the image of the shelf (a crew member handed her a book when she reached into the drapes).
A larger, grander version of this design followed later in a bigger venue. I love this version of the design best, though, as it solves many scenic design problems in an elegant way.
![forest](https://s3.amazonaws.com/scenicandlighting/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/31232222/forest1-1024x318.jpg)
![castle](https://s3.amazonaws.com/scenicandlighting/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/31232222/castle1-1024x288.jpg)
![groundplan](https://s3.amazonaws.com/scenicandlighting/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/31232221/groundplan1-1024x576.gif)
![Iso](https://s3.amazonaws.com/scenicandlighting/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/31232221/Iso-1024x779.jpg)
![model_castle](https://s3.amazonaws.com/scenicandlighting/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/31232219/model_castle.jpg)
![model_village](https://s3.amazonaws.com/scenicandlighting/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/31232219/model_village.jpg)
![model_village_iso](https://s3.amazonaws.com/scenicandlighting/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/31232219/model_village_iso.jpg)
![platforms](https://s3.amazonaws.com/scenicandlighting/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/31232218/platforms-1024x571.gif)
![thumbgp](https://s3.amazonaws.com/scenicandlighting/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/31232218/thumbgp.jpg)
![thumbplats](https://s3.amazonaws.com/scenicandlighting/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/31232217/thumbplats.jpg)
![katlogo](https://s3.amazonaws.com/scenicandlighting/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/31232220/katlogo.jpg)
![logo-beauty-and-the-beast](https://s3.amazonaws.com/scenicandlighting/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/31232220/logo-beauty-and-the-beast.jpg)