The Beautiful and Damned
Advisor Information
Steven Williams
Location
Milo Bail Student Center Ballroom
Presentation Type
Exhibit
Start Date
8-3-2013 9:00 AM
End Date
8-3-2013 12:00 PM
Abstract
This project involved adapting a century old story by F. Scott Fitzgerald into a stage play. The involvement of outside designers helped to create a specific look and feel to the production, which was staged here in Omaha and underwent a week long run at the Omaha Community Playhouse before going on to be performed at the Unicorn Theatre for the Kansas City Fringe Festival in 2012. The project involved the use of on-stage (source) lighting along with the use of an overhead projector to cast color and the feel of various locations onto the playing space. Music was also a major factor in setting the mood for scenes. A combination of songs appropriate to the book’s specific time period mixed together alongside modern music gave the atmosphere of the play a unique feel. Costume and properties resided in a nonspecific time period in order to balance with the mixture of classical and contemporary influenced by sound and lights. The staging of the production involved a blend of realistic interactions with abstract and expressive movements. Each of the characters in the play were utilized to portray the character themselves, but also functioned as our Narrators in certain parts of the action and were able to jump in and out of the action of the story as needed. This device was used to blur the line between character and storyteller.
The Beautiful and Damned
Milo Bail Student Center Ballroom
This project involved adapting a century old story by F. Scott Fitzgerald into a stage play. The involvement of outside designers helped to create a specific look and feel to the production, which was staged here in Omaha and underwent a week long run at the Omaha Community Playhouse before going on to be performed at the Unicorn Theatre for the Kansas City Fringe Festival in 2012. The project involved the use of on-stage (source) lighting along with the use of an overhead projector to cast color and the feel of various locations onto the playing space. Music was also a major factor in setting the mood for scenes. A combination of songs appropriate to the book’s specific time period mixed together alongside modern music gave the atmosphere of the play a unique feel. Costume and properties resided in a nonspecific time period in order to balance with the mixture of classical and contemporary influenced by sound and lights. The staging of the production involved a blend of realistic interactions with abstract and expressive movements. Each of the characters in the play were utilized to portray the character themselves, but also functioned as our Narrators in certain parts of the action and were able to jump in and out of the action of the story as needed. This device was used to blur the line between character and storyteller.