Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

My design features essentially a unit set. There are no significant changes till the end of Act 2. At stage right is a level (8 by 10 feet, 19 inches high—I see there's no scale in the drawing) with steps onstage and off. Double lines represent approximate positions of masking. Most of the action on the level in Acts 1 and 2 will involve members of the Danish court.

Left of center is a rectangle standing for a reversible unit. On one side, during exterior scenes, we see a tree. When the action shifts to an interior, say at Hamlet and Ophelia's entrance, the unit quickly revolves to show a stone pillar on its other side.

The Tragedians will have quite a narrow little cart, with a billboard on one side advertising all the ways the members of the troupe can die.

July 29, Year 3
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