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Insights on Design: Lessons from the First Quarter and Overcoming Challenges in Stage Production

On October 31, 2012, students reflect on their design learnings from the first quarter, identifying elements that challenged their understanding. The objective is to enhance skills in creating stage designs, focusing on aspects like scale, templates, and audience considerations. Students explore a sample play set in a New Orleans basement in 1941, delving into themes of poverty, abuse, and mental health. The discussion centers on breaking cycles of oppression and finding personal empowerment in a harsh societal context.

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Insights on Design: Lessons from the First Quarter and Overcoming Challenges in Stage Production

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  1. October 31, 2012 Warm Up: What did you learn about design in the first quarter? What left you completely flummoxed. Objective: Students will review again how to create designs on stage.

  2. Starting over or review • Presenting the stage on paper • Scale • Template • Rulers • Considerations for Audience • Orientation • Location • Levels

  3. Sample Play • Mood: helpless oppression of poverty, abuse, and mental illness. • Theme: To break the cycle, you have to stand up for yourself first. • Given Circumstances: • Time: 1941, July, evenings after work • Place: A basement apartment in a lower ward of New Orleans, the living/family room • Society: Hardworking, poor lower class, women are expected to submit to their man in everyway. A woman without a man is useless. • Economics: poor, hardworking, struggling to make ends meet • Intellect/Culture: uneducated, not clever nor smart. Man is quick to anger, Woman is scared of him. • Politics/Law: domestic violence • Spirituality: what kind of person beats their wife when they screw up? How does one justify that to themselves?

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