Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Designing an Acid Trip Onstage: The Hallucinogenic Set of Flying Over Sunset
TheaterMania: The pandemic has not slowed down set designer Beowulf Boritt. This past year, he has designed scenery for several live productions (including Merry Wives in the Park), written a book about scenic design (to be released this coming August), and started a new organization to provide grants to early career designers, with the goal of diversifying the stable of theatrical designers on Broadway.
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Through briefly studying this set, it seems to me that what makes this design so effective is the way it flatters and works with different aspects of the design in the space. Specifically in the way the roots of the set are designed to support beautiful projection and light design while also giving a clear setting. This show has a unique need to create strange visuals that can connect a feeling out of audience members that they may or may not have experienced before because of LSD. Beowulf Boritt was incredibly clever when he chose to make it “the blank canvas” because as he says later he was able to collaborate with designers to, “paint on it with shadow in the opening moments” which gives him an immense amount of creative possibilities for the artistic design. I also think that the design of this set is well thought-out in the way of its use of space, while the story remains in the same physicality, detailed elements are able to imply a deeper sense of setting that engages the audience.
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