Orlando

Vanderbilt University Theatre, 2018

Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's Orlando moves fluidly through space and time, encompassing country estates, a Turkish harem, a ship at sea, and a department store as the title character moves from the 15th through the 20th century. The set for the production served to facilitate that fluidity with built in "furniture" covered with white fabric to allow for painting with light. With the dawn of the modern age, the set's organic shapes were sharpened by revealing trusswork and an art deco inspired elevator.

Act I sample​

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Late English Renaissance music

(John Dowland)

Act II sample

Baroque music

(Henry Purcell, Johann Pachelbel)

Act III sample

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Late Baroque to early Classical music (George Fridrich Handel, Johann Nepomuk Hummel)

Act IV sample​

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Romantic music

(Giachino Rossini, Claude Debussy, Edward Elgar)

Act V sample

Organ music leads to thunder crash and then transitions to Minimalism

(J.S. Bach, Philip Glass)

To see more about how I developed the scenic and audio designs for this production, please see the process pages for each. 

Director: Jessika Malone

Set Designer: Phillip Franck

Costume Designer: Alexandra Sargent Capps

Lighting Designer: Phillip Franck

Sound Designer: Phillip Franck

Photos by: Phillip Franck