DIRECTOR: CRYSTAL MANICH
SET DESIGNER: SHENGXIN JIN
LIGHTING DESIGNER: TLÁLOC MIGUEL LÓPEZ-WATERMANN
COSTUME DESIGNER: SUSAN ALLRED
PHOTOGRAPHER: DAVID BACHMAN
Little Women is a play not only about one family, everyone can find themselves in it. Multiple scenes often happen simultaneously, one scene moves abruptly to the next, and conversations overlap. The main design idea is every scene being Jo’s memory, the set abstracts March house in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo’s oversized and influential books from her childhood hold up to the floors.
Like most people, Jo only remembers a few specific details about the events in her life, and the most important items are highlighted in a particular color scheme. Furniture for each location literally falls from the sky as if the memory, once lost in the space of her mind, becomes a gowned reality when relieved. In the upstage, one can see tiny houses drop, a macrocosm of American life in the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, filled with writing and drawing in a child-like hand.
Scale Model with Photoshop
