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Introduction to Theatre Collab Project Presentation 2013 Role: Set Designer Play: Bus Stop

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Set Design by Marta EpombaSet Design by Marta Epomba

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• The set designer is responsible for collaborating with the director and other members of the production team, such as lights and costumes, to create an environment for the production and then communicating the details of this environment to the audience.

Intro to Set Design

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• In In Bus Stop, Bus Stop, by William Inge, by William Inge, the characters are trapped the characters are trapped in a diner outside of Kansas in a diner outside of Kansas City, Missouri during a City, Missouri during a snowstorm. The entirety of snowstorm. The entirety of the action takes place in the action takes place in this diner. The diner should this diner. The diner should be small and intimate, with be small and intimate, with a low ceiling, one door, and a low ceiling, one door, and a sizeable window that a sizeable window that overlooks the titular bus overlooks the titular bus stop. The interior should stop. The interior should have one bar with some have one bar with some stools, and a few tables stools, and a few tables with chairs. A simple with chairs. A simple staircase leading up to staircase leading up to Grace’s apartment should Grace’s apartment should be unobtrusively off to the be unobtrusively off to the side. side.

Set Pieces and Design for Set Pieces and Design for Bus StopBus Stop

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Mood and Style• Bus Stop occurs in 1955;

therefore, the set should have a distinct ‘50s feel. But it is a small and unassuming diner; not big and colorful like the Grease teen hangout, but muted, with more wood finishing and dull red accents. It should look like it caters to an older crowd.

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Possible Possible Bus StopBus Stop Set Designs Set Designs

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Chairs

Bar

Window

Door

Bar Stools

Bus Stop

Audience

Stairs

Tables

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