Wouldn’t it be amazing if something completely unexpected happened right now? Like the forest just split in half and what was once up is now down? Or if a door opened up in the sky, which was now the floor being unearthed from the ground? If all the dirt that was unearthed became water?
Scene design for "The Cataract" by Lisa D'Amour at The University of Texas at Austin
The language is space and efficient, so should the design be. It is a sparse and elemental design setting an ethereal mood. The tall splintered wood suggest both the inside of a log cabin and the dense forest that might surround the house. The pallet is grey and brown palette, within it pops of color emerge. This world exsists in a realm that is somewhere between dream world and waking life. It has a beautiful strangeness that sabotages an audiences expectations while poetically unearthing mysteries into our inner self.
Scene design for "The Cataract" by Lisa D'Amour at The University of Texas at Austin
The language is space and efficient, so should the design be. It is a sparse and elemental design setting an ethereal mood. The tall splintered wood suggest both the inside of a log cabin and the dense forest that might surround the house. The pallet is grey and brown palette, within it pops of color emerge. This world exsists in a realm that is somewhere between dream world and waking life. It has a beautiful strangeness that sabotages an audiences expectations while poetically unearthing mysteries into our inner self.
"...designers have created a stunning environment for the curiosities of script and staging...set designer William Anderson creates intimacy with a gorgeous sloped platform surrounded by sand." - Jillian Owens, The Austin Chronicle
"The sparse and elemental set design sets an ethereal mood." - Claire Canavan, American-Statesman
2013 Austin Critics Table Nomination- Scenic Design
