A Streetcar Named Desire
Set Design
Dixie State University - Spring 2015
Directed by: Michael Harding
Set Design
Dixie State University - Spring 2015
Directed by: Michael Harding
Director's Concept:
Michael Harding provided a discriptive list of words for the type of enviornment and world that encompassed Tennessee Williams Streetcar Named Desire which included:
Sultry
Humid
Passionate
Terrifying
Evolving
Animal
Exciting
Primal
Humid
Passionate
Terrifying
Evolving
Animal
Exciting
Primal
Theme: The Call of the Wild – No matter how civilized we may pretend to become, we are all still primal in the core of our being.
Spectacle: The set should be:
• More realistic the closer to the audience it gets.
• Allowing the majority of the action to take place in front of the Proscenium
• Two-level
• Spilling onto the sides a bit
• Becoming more and more surreal (sketch-ish) the further it extends upstage
• Characters should be constantly moving in the background, mimicking the energy of the action onstage
• More realistic the closer to the audience it gets.
• Allowing the majority of the action to take place in front of the Proscenium
• Two-level
• Spilling onto the sides a bit
• Becoming more and more surreal (sketch-ish) the further it extends upstage
• Characters should be constantly moving in the background, mimicking the energy of the action onstage
These conceptual ideas geared me towards a caged look. Using broken up horizontal and diagonal slates to create a broken world, but everyone including the neighors can see and know what is going on in world of Stanley and Stella.
Sketchup Rendering. I went for a more caged look with horizontal slates.
Model of Set
Production Photo: A Streetcar Named Desire. Set Realized
Production Photo: A Streetcar Named Desire
Production Photo: A Streetcar Named Desire. The use of practical fixtures offered a more natural atmosphere.
Production Photo: A Streetcar Named Desire
Production Photo: A Streetcar Named Desire
