1) The set design concept takes a contemporary approach to representing the play while maintaining traditional theater elements. A proscenium stage is chosen to provide uniform views for the audience. 2) The set has no walls to engulf the audience in the play's metaphor of love knowing no bounds. A rustic wooden cabin feel is used to give the illusion of isolation from real world problems. 3) Each character will enter with a personalized door reflecting their personality to help with identification and provide a comedic element.

1. Wintertime: Set Design
Phuong Truong
THEA 1301
Jon Egging

2. Design Concept
• Concept: We will take on a contemporary approach to
representing this play while also maintaining certain traditional
elements of theater
• Type of Stage – proscenium; this works well because it always for a
uniformed field of view for the audience. In other words, everyone
will see the same thing at the same time.
• Mod. 1 – we chose to not incorporate a walls to further engulf the
audience in the metaphors of our play: “Love knows no bounds”; by
having the no walls in our living room, we can extend the nature of
the external environment into our household to increase the effect of
the tension that builds up as our play goes downhill
• Mod. 2 - instead of a true “summer home”, we chose to go for a rustic
wooden cabin feel; in doing so we can give the illusion of isolation
from “real world problems” so that once the characters make their
entrance, the dramatic shift of mood would be more effective and
overall enjoyable by the audience

3. Design Concept Cont.
• Concept Cont.
• Mod. 3 – doors still remain a comedic element of the play but they will also play a
role in identification when each character makes his/her entrance, they will bring
their own door
• Each door will be decorated as to fit their personality
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Jonathan will have a deep red colored door matching Ariel’s to signify how deeply in love
the two are, yet he is easily upset by jealousy so his door will be filled with question mark
stickers when the time comes during the play
Ariel will have a deep read colored door matching Jonathan’s to signify how deeply in love
the two are, yet she is impulsive so hers will be filled with exclamation mark stickers when
the time comes during the play
Maria will have two colors on her door to match Franks’ and Francois’ doors; being the
mother who wants her children to cherish love, her door will be filled with worried faces
with thought bubbles containing hearts
Frank will have two colors on his door to match Maria’s and Edmund’s doors; since Frank
sometimes feels lonely, his door will have sad faces on it
Francois will match the door of Maria; since Francois is a flirty Frenchman, his will have a
bed with hearts floating over it on his door
Edmund will match the door of Frank; since Edmund wants Frank all to himself, his will
have a man pulling a man away from his wife painted on his door
Bertha & Hildas’ will have matching doors with “ : ” faces

4. Environment
• “Outside”
• Mountainous Landscape (for skiing and snowboarding)
• Winter (Snowy)
• We used cotton piles to replicate the effect of a snowy landscape and
had our flooring painted white to simulate the snowy grounds of
Colorado
• The color scheme of blues and white also were used to keep the
metaphor of “Love knows no bounds”
• Wooded (Thin White Trees)
• Pieces of wood carved and painted white to look like Birch Trees
without leaves
• Frosted over shrubbery represented by taller stacks of the cotton piles

5. Environment Cont.
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“Inside”
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Act 1
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Modern-day living room with a piano, a fireplace, a wooden table, and a couple of chairs (2)
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There are no physical walls as to maintain that cold nature expressed by the external environment
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Since we chose not to incorporate walls into our play and they are there in the Winter, the
furniture is covered with “fake snow” to give an appearance of an uninhabited house
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A snow machine will be going on the entire scene
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Props
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Skis
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Snowboards
Boots/Snowshoes
Act 2
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Modern-day living room with a fireplace, a wooden table, and a couple of chairs (7)
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There are no physical walls as to maintain that cold nature expressed by the external environment
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The back wall is to be lined in black drapes at this moment
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Props
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Champagne
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Food/Drink
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Orchids

6. Act 1 Setup
I made this :D
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Audience
= Stage
= House (no wall)
= Shrubs
= Trees
http://www.vacationrentaldirect.com/clients/8494/HouseCornerWinter.jpg
= Chairs
= Fireplace
= Desk
= Piano

7. Act 2 Setup
I made this :D
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/MarielundsskovenForest_at_wintertime_in_Kolding_Denmark_A.jpg/640px-MarielundsskovenForest_at_wintertime_in_Kolding_Denmark_A.jpg
Audience
= Stage
= House (no wall)
= Shrubs
= Trees
http://www.vacationrentaldirect.com/clients/8494/HouseCornerWinter.jpg
= Chairs
= Fireplace
= Desk
= Orchids

8. Mood/Style
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Mood
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Calming/Relaxing
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The serene background of a “winter wonderland” give the audience an impression of escapism where all the problems
of the real world are left behind and one can focus on themselves and/or each other
White = peace, snow = delicate, cold = calming, wooden cabin = isolated
Bittersweet/Comedy
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With tension between lovers, the cold environment provides a personification of the jealousy each and every one is
feeling during the play
“Inside the cabin” there will be a fireplace that will be “on” during the sequences of dialogue
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We will rig the fire place to increase in flame when heated debate goes on and once it subsides, so will the flame
Also, towards the end, when Ariel and Jonathan make up, it will spark up again and burn brighter than ever throughout the
entire play
Doors will be repeatedly opened and slammed shut
Style
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We will take a contemporary approach while incorporating traditional elements of theater
When each character makes their entrance, the audience will be able to draw their own conclusions of the cast
when they see their doors
We will use the dramatic ups and downs to ride on the reactions/emotions of the audience
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This also will play a key role in portraying the theme of the play (love knows no boundaries ie. Jealousy)
The set design sets up a false mood that is replaced by its opposite, as peace soon turns to tension

9. Real vs. Non-Real
• We chose to keep the setting of this play as close
to reality as possible
• We did not chose to substitute any element for that
of supernatural nature, etc.
• In choosing no to design a physical room, we can
extend the cold nature of the environment to the
acting space of the play
• We have to remember that the action is happening
predominately inside a living room, yet there are no
walls; we have to use our imagination to visualize
them, but retain the cold nature of the “outside”

10. Locale/Period
• “Mountainous” Colorado
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We chose to bring our play to a “Mountainous” Colorado because it is a
popular vacation spot for both Summer and Winter. Snowboarding/Skiing are
popular here too so we kept with the plot of Wintertime and set it near/on
mountains
Dec. 30, 2006 – Jan. 1, 2007
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With Jonathan planning to propose to Ariel on New Years, we chose to make
it a weekend where it does fall on New Years Eve
http://funlava.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/New-Years-Eve.jpg
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11. Image/Metaphor
• “Love knows no boundaries”
• Ex: Same-sex couples (sexual
orientation); having no walls to the
acting space
http://www.mozdex.com/images/gay-couples.jpg
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/141/6/c/true_love_knows_no_bounds_by_mistrel_fox-d3gu2ce.jpg

12. Image/Metaphor Cont.
• The unpredictable turns of love provide a constant
theme in this play. It brings both extremes into
one by uncoupling people and then re-coupling
them. This is symbolized by the utilization of doors
to prove a barrier between individuals. The
metaphor that is demonstrated in this play is that
love knows no bounds. Whether it be an actual
barrier (having no walls in the living room) or
social barriers (the many types of relationships
shown by heterogeneous and homogeneous
couples), this play shows that nothing can come in
between one person and their love for another