Hello
Adrian Designer of the slough section here.. sorry its been too long, but i am here and ready to go.
OK, so design ideas so far, Lizzie has already said some, but just a few morw ideas, costume wise, we have been discussing black and white, i think it will give it a really clear and crisp edge by which the actors can be seen clearly against what may be a black and white based set (more later)... so most of the basic costumes in black and white, reflecting slough in its many forms through the ages, so a mixture, of street, sotemporary, with a variety of clothes from days gone by, a real mix, but based in balck and white so still very subtle, then these will be acessorised with items of characters, turbans, sari, shawls etc.. we have been discussing using masks as ensemble moments, groups scenes to create a whole, almost none discript, common mass, as groups pof people in slough, wales and new zealand... so colour will come through the accessoires.
The set.. at the moment.. butobviously these may change considerabley... all ideas more than welcome...
using the ideas of journeys we have looked atmany options and have come to the idea of many lines, like a map, where there are different lines for different places, roads and rivers, even thicknesses of line for the value of the road.. so we have the idea of haveing a grid made of lines creating ever different sections on the floor in which we can light as small sections to reflect differnt areas and time, and also to create a large open space for larger ensemble moments..lines will also go vertically up from the stage at the juctions of the lines where the differnt cloured lines on the floor will then be represented on the poles going upwards.
These vertical poles will give us more ways to hang cloth and gauzes on which to project at different times within the performance,
A large screen / fabric / gauze on the stage will hope fully become a costume, making it very fluid, and cinamatic, fast paced and exciting... we hope.
At the moment the ideas are very much still on the table, and much help would be gratefully appreciated, we are really ecited about combining the three pieces visually and verbally..
Hope all are well
Adrian
