The Scottish play (shhh…)

A deceptively simple looking set but with multiple uses put together for the local adaptation of Shakespear’s classic play that we can not mention here.

Commissioned by the JUTE theatre company in Cairns Queensland in 2010.  A simple set by appearances which through it’s modular construction allowed fast scene changes and varied uses of the individual elements throughout the play. The intention of this set was to look half finished as that reflected the adaptations storyline. What appeared to be crates for costumes and equipment where designed to stack on and beside each other to create multi layered scene changes of various uses. The “flats” where double sided so that as the play went on they changed from a Scottish castle to an Albert Tucker like Australian landscape. All scene changes were carried out by the actors in full view of the audience adding another element to the theatrics. Adapted by Scot Witt, Set Design by Dominie Hooper, Set Construction by Darren Merchant and Lighting by Ben Hughes, this was a production that stirred up the purists.