THE CHERRY TORTURED
By Aaron Posner
The “Cherry Tortured” is a play where a patchwork family is reunited in their ancestral home about to be repossessed, subsequently revealing a tangled attachment to a place flawed with history and hopelessly human. With this design, I aim to emphasize the presence of clear flawed humanity in a place that is kind of silly and kind of sad. The layered nature of the home represents the patchwork nature of the family and individual, full of history and hundreds of stories. In this way, the house is not a symmetrical perfect thing, but an unsymmetrical, flawed, and patchwork structure created by stories.
INDECENT
By Paula Vogel
THE PILLOWMAN
By Martin McDonagh
This design centers around Katurian as he tries to escape the realities of the domineering totalitarian state he inhabits, represented through the grand grid compressing his environment. Katurian is forced to see his own mind through his reflection in the double sided mirror. In this way, the stories take place exclusively behind the two-way mirror, paring imagination with the voyeurism of an interrogation room.
MEDEA
By Luigi Cherubini