Dramaturg/Director/Dancer/Musician
This more emotional whodunit that grapples with the question, who is really the victim?
Workshop
To help deepen character building I prepared a printed "escape room" for the actors to complete. The teams were the women and the men. The men had all the help at their disposal they needed but unfortunately were sabotaged from the beginning to never be able to complete their task.
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The women were allowed to win, but at any moment they had to complete tasks given by their "husbands". This was all to help them better understand the frustrations their characters feel during the play.
I brought food that had been specifically mentioned in the script. This also helped the actors get more involved because who doesn't love food and eating?​
Lobby Display
For my lobby display I wanted to portray the emotion that we do not often get to be who we wish and must follow what the world projects on us. To portray this, I had one of our actresses posted on the wall as a paper doll and patrons could dress her with clothes and different facial expressions as they pleased.
Playbill
Our original playbill for this piece went through a series of changes before we landed on the final one below. I drew several mock-ups for the director who then explained her final vision for which I had my husband assemble the final version in Adobe Photoshop.
Showing the critical prop, the quilt, behind a window that's closed. This is the final program, showing an empty room with very little hope, looking out on the bright world but not being free to go to it.
It was a very symbolic piece created to represent the underlying tones and emotions of the performance.
Post-Show
I had the opportunity to run a post-show discussion with the audience right after they saw this performance. The director had taken risks and made decisions as well this isn't a super familiar play to everyone so it was interesting to hear the audience's immediate reaction to the performance they just saw.
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It was very interesting to hear the audience's perspective on weather or not they felt Minnie murdering her husband was justified or if she deserved to go free.
