A man and some women
Set & costume design for
A man and some women by Githa Sowerby
THE BRISTOL OLD VIC, BRISTOL
Written in 1913, the three acts play aims to underline the rigidity of social conventions in Edwardian era and the double-sided “morality” of society.
Designed in collaboration with Director Richard Beecham and set at the Bristol Old Vic, the set shows an oppressive library in Richard Shannon’s house as a metaphor for self imprisonment. The set creates a cage, which is a three-sided structure filled with books.
In act three this space opens upstage to reveal Jessica’s space surrounded by the darkness of backstage void. This abstract final image creates an island of the room on a carpet which tracks downstage. Finally, the back wall suddenly shuts as representative of real freedom denied by society.
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