Set: The Tempest

This was a very cool set.

We were doing Shakespeare’s The Tempest and I wanted something different. I mean, really different. This is the ship. Every piece moved. Every piece became another set piece for another scene. I loved it. As a director, I could look at each piece and decide, with my tech director, exactly what the locations needed to look like.

What was even better, my actors were able to commit fully to each iteration of the set. The boat in the storm was especially fun for them as they would move with the storm, as a group, and felt how important they were to making it believable. Each actor understood that if they weren’t with the group, it would throw off the believability of that scene.

The set gave the actors a playground of levels and they delighted in using each and every inch of it. The look and feel I was going for was post-apocalyptic, similar to Mad Max. I wanted the set to be a harsh backdrop for the actors and it really lived up to my expectations.

The Tempest