Bedroom Farce images
The ground plan grew in part from a blue-sky session at the Globe a month or two ago. I believe it gives us a workable way to fit three bedrooms into our little space. If you aren't familiar with the way we point, "left" means the part of the stage to your right as you sit in the auditorium and "up" means the part of the stage farthest away from you.
Ernest and Delia's room is Down Right. It features a sash window, a door to the bathroom and one to the corridor, a double bed and a dressing table. This room will have a pre-midcentury decor, wallpaper and wainscoting and a wrought-iron bedstead. The "bedside" table at the Downstage corner is a chimera: The Right half will have an Ernest and Delia look while the Left half will fit into Malcolm and Kate's room Down Left.
Malcolm Does It Himself. By the time of the action, he has stripped his and Kate's room down to the lath, built a clothesrack from a kit, and installed the futon for sleeping. He has promised to redecorate the room, and that may happen one day.
Jan and Nick favor modern architecture (the time of the action is about seven months too soon for postmodern). Their room, the Upstage part of the set, is in a diluted International Style house with ribbon windows and exposed structural members. Utterly boring. The bed has a ponderous headpiece with shelves and lamps and so forth. The room is elevated about 2 feet above the deck.
The ovals in the drawing stand for dressing tables and other furniture. This description of the set is probably more explicit than the set itself: The action is so fluid that the rooms will stand apart from one another without much help from incidentals.
The next page in this series includes a couple of photos of the scale model I built as a proof of concept. Later pages will show the set as construction progresses.
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