The Misanthrope images
A few details and a photo of the unfinished set. At left you see the fancy double-leaf door we put at the top of the level. If you carefully read the ground plan in this series of images, you know I originally designed the door to open offstage. I had several reasons ready to tell the director—unseen stagehands can work it, frames Célimène better, and so forth—but the real reason was simply that it's one-third as hard to build a door that opens offstage. It only has to have a front, no back! At right is the paint-by-numbers portrait Steven found for the Stage Left wall; well, it was a print, but he took his little oil paint set and applied some, um, is impasto the word I'm looking for?
At right is a photo of the big staircase still under construction. Each tread is a little platform, and there are some dozens of legs sticking up underneath. I've studied my "beginning stair-building" book and found nothing about spirals, so this seemed the best approach. Lucky no one in the audience ever got to look below.
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