Set Design Into the Woods

Vision
Prepared by Darcie Kane-Priestley and Hannah Winspear-Shillings

Scaffolding
Eclectic Mix of Metal and Wood
Industrial Revolution.
Nature entwined with machinery. Ie. ivy-covered steel beams,
scaffolding, etc.
- Consider the context and tone of the Industrial Revolution - more and
more wilderness and natural landscape getting swallowed up by
human technology. Although, instead of civilisation, order, and
technology triumphing, it could be wildness, magic, and chaos (order
vs chaos, safe known vs scary unknown is also a common theme in
fairytales)
- Human negativity, greed, dishonesty, and also technology and
industrialism could be shown through the set. For example, after
every argument or negativity expressed by the characters on stage,
a little bit more nature gets added to the set.
- Would it be possible for the set to start off completely industrial,
modern, and metallic, but also very noticeably fragile and eclectic,
with exposed scaffolding, etc., then as the play goes on, more and
more nature gets added, until its completely transformed by the
end. This way, nature vs civilisation could be one of the main themes
- with the woods acting as a sentient, growing force and a catalyst
for dark, wild impulses, it could also lead to a theme of civilisation vs
savagery - that could possibly be tied in with the Wolf and Little Red.
- We want for in Act 2, the stage floor being covered with leaves,
which could be made from ripped out pages of fairytale books which
cut to look like leaves.
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