My illustration of Clybourne Park is all about a literal approach of the way the play was written. I want to it to tell evoke real emotion I want for the audience to feel like they are in this event and not just watching a story being told. I want this to has a realistic approach and for maybe when the audience to be able to leave the theater and say I know someone or even maybe they have gone though this and I really what them to connect if possible.
The theater choice that I want to make is to have it play right here in the Peabody in Daytona Beach, I know your probably wondering why here right in our backyard. The answer is that I want my target audience to be a middle age crowd to senior or veterans. But I love this location also because of it smaller size it will give more of an imitate feeling to the play.Florida is the best state for older crowds, I guess because the warmer weather. But I want this group of individuals because the first act takes place in 1959 and talks about a problem that was very big back then which was racism and also but brings up the Korean War. So I feel that the older people can relate but not only that I feel that they can really feel connected to the emotions that Bev and Russ have to convene near the end of Act one when Russ begins to read Kenneth’s suicide letter. And in the second Act the conservation flows with a more new age feeling but still brings up the factor of race. Which the middle age generation can understand and find some relevance in the content but still understand the first Act. In all I feel that this audience will best appreciate the content and the unified vision in which it will be performed in making this my best choice in theater locations.
For the scenic design I want an open feeling with a moving and somewhat abandonment. In Act 1 I want a clean but disorganized look meaning nice white walls but boxes all spread around the stage. Not a lot of furniture a kitchen table, four matching chairs, moving boxes dispersed around the stage, a the wanes coating on the bottom half of the walls, with all the wood fixtures to have a rich oak color to them. Then in Act 2 I want the major sense of feeling to be abandonment with dust and cob webs all around. I want for the furniture that the characters to be sitting on to resemble milk crates. I want the walls to have paint peeling and a dirty effect around.
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| This helps to show how I want the stage set up with the wooden stair case and the openness of the room. |
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| This demonstrates the color and fabric I want to use. |
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| The wanes coating is why I used this picture. |
For the scenic design I want an open feeling with a moving and somewhat abandonment. In Act 1 I want a clean but disorganized look meaning nice white walls but boxes all spread around the stage. Not a lot of furniture a kitchen table, four matching chairs, moving boxes dispersed around the stage, a the wanes coating on the bottom half of the walls, with all the wood fixtures to have a rich oak color to them. Then in Act 2 I want the major sense of feeling to be abandonment with dust and cob webs all around. I want for the furniture that the characters to be sitting on to resemble milk crates. I want the walls to have paint peeling and a dirty effect around.
The lighting in Act 1 I want to be almost a simulation of daylight shining in on a living room through large bay windows with white satin curtains that are faded in spots draped over them. I want a bright uplifting light for the bringing of the Act and when Karl shows up I want it to look like there are clouds rolling by outside affecting the lighting making it slightly darker or dimmer. This is to almost hint or to show a sense of how when Karl shows up that he will be bringing problems. Then when Russ explodes and loses his temper I want it to look like there is a storm outside and the light shining in now has change from a sunny happy mood to a gray filter of that white light which will help to show anger but also carry so sadness with it. To open this Act the house lights will dim to a pre lit stage and to close it, the stage light will slowly dim as if almost to say goodbye to the past.
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| The way the picture is lit up by the sun is the warm feeling I from the beginning of Act 1. |
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| This will be the source of light from the Acts in the play. |
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| This picture is to show how the lighting will be towards the end of the play to help portray the anger and sorrow from those ending scenes. |
Now for Act 2 I want it to start the house lights will dim down to a dark stage that will slowly light up to show a stage of actors. I want for it to have a sepia tone with an almost orange glow like you would get for a sunset. And I want for this to stay the lighting for the whole thing that is until Dan reads the letter at the end then I want a spot light him and a dim dusty white lights on Bev and the other actors to help create the flashback. Then to finish I want an abrupt shut off of the lights to take you back to reality signaling fin the end.
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| This is showing the color I want the lighting to be in the throughout the second Act. |
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| This is for at the end when Dan is reading Kennith's letter. This spot light will help create the flashback for that moment. |
For the costume design I feel it help me to select a cast for the play in order of characters
Russ: Clarke Gable
Bev: Tippi Hedren
Francine: Kimberly Elise
Jim: Jake Gyllenhaal
Albert: Shemar Moore
Karl: James Wood
Besty: Jayma Mays
Now when I cast these actors it helped motive me for the clothing design I wanted cotton dresses on the woman Francine in a maid outfit. The men Russ and Albert will be wearing cotton button up plaid short shelve shirts for a more relaxed look but Jim and Karl with be in long sleeve button up shirt with a blazer or sports coat.The woman will have bright and vivid colors to show their happy personalities while the men rich deep navy blues and dark charcoals to show their masculine side.Like the ones depicted in the picture below it flows I think very well for the way I want the show to come out in Act 1.
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| In all of the clothing pictures they help to represent the style, color, and fabic that each individual will wear to help ease their mission of becoming that actor or actress needed to play their part effectively. |
Now for Act 2 the guide line for the clothing will be a more up to date feeling but with sophistication . So the woman again will be wearing brighter light colored clothing and the material will be cotton based only because it is a comfortable and easy to move in. The men will be in dark colors yet again it just shows masculinity. But sophistication is the feeling I am trying to produce by dressing them so proper I want the audience to feel a shock when all the charters start to bicker like children near the end of the act.
I want to have all the sounds mimic everyday life. Just like I explained in my vision so I don't want crazy sounds or effects so the play will not have much sounds other than doorbells and doors slamming. But to set the mood and place a time on Act 1 I would like this song "Come on Let's go" by Ritchie Valens to be playing just for a minute or to a minute in a half when the house lights go out at the beginning of the of the Act and the song will play once more near the end when Russ turns the radio back on.
The chorus of this song will open Act 2. I want for the audience to feel the time/ year change bringing it up to date and for it to have a hidden message of togetherness and kindness not what is going to be exposed in Act 2. The only other sound you will hear is again doorbells walking. I want a realistic approach so there fore there will be unnecessary music.
