The document outlines the setting design for As You Like It. The forest scenes will feature large tree props and colorful floral drops to portray an escape from the enclosed palace. The palace set will be small with luxurious but enclosed decor to show it is not a place of peace. Both sets must coordinate visually through lighting, costumes, and characters to create a cohesive story while establishing the forest as a place of freedom versus the restrictive palace. The design aims to immerse audiences as if they are experiencing the story firsthand.

1. SETTING DESIGN FOR
AS YOU LIKE IT
By
Raymond Ahaiwe

2. IDEA
The idea of the play with regards
to Setting is to make the
audience feel and believe that
they are experiencing the story
first hand or as if they were
really there.

3. SCENIC ENVIRONMENT
 Room Scenes
• Are to be furnished with antiques and decorated with light blue and
green colors to reflect the royalty of the palace and tie in with the
forest scenes
 Forest/Outside Scenes
• For permanent outdoor scenes, painted drop would be best
• For main forest scenes, actual large tree props are to used along with
the drop
• For decoration, another drop of colorful floras are to be used

6. MOOD AND STYLE
 Mood and Style
• The set of the palace is luxurious but small and enclosed to
portray the idea that the palace is not a place of peace and
want
• The forest set is peaceful, open and free to portray the idea
that it is the escape from the palace world. It is a place where
the characters want to be, where they can be free

8. REALISTIC/NONREALISTIC
 The palace scene is realistic as it mirrors what the scene would
look like in real life
 The forest scene is nonrealistic as it is made to seem as an escape
from the palace life. It is seen as mystical and outrageous paradise

10. LOCATION AND PERIOD
 Palace
•
The décor of the palace lets the audience know that the play is set
around the 1590s-1600’s
 Forest
• Is a landscape set that does not give much detail about the period of
the play but gives the set location

11. PIC

12. DESIGN CONCEPT
 ‘Pastoral’ tradition
•
The main set of the forest comes to life because of Shakespeare
influence of the ‘Pastoral’ tradition
•
Pastoral tradition being the influence of nature as the main reason for the
plot as characters flee from urban areas to the peaceful countryside and
disguise themselves in order to ‘fit’ in

13. PIC

14. VISUAL METAPHOR
 Palace
• The palace is seen as a trap to the main character
 Forest
• The forest is seen as freedom to the characters, serving as an
escape from the lives they lead in the city

16. PRODUCTION ELEMENTS
 Coherence
• The lights, costume, set, and characters must coordinate with
each other in order to create a flowing play

18. DESIGN PROBLEM
 Set clashing
• The sets in the play cannot clash with each other, meaning they
cannot drastically differ from each other
• Even thought the two sets are to be seen as opposites they should
not be set in different time periods or something of the sort
 Switching sets
• Luckily there are only three sets in this play, one being completely
different and the other two being practically the same. Usually it is
time consuming to switch from set to set but in this play it is not

19. THE END