A Good Play for Set Design Class

[030366]

My set design professor, a notoriously fastidious individual, wanted us to design in certain styles. So first he had us do formalistic Antigone, and then a realism The Petrified Forest. We all hated The Petrified Forest, but I do have to admit that it was a really excellent choice for the class...and it lent itself extremely well to a fragmented realism design, if any of us chose to be so ambitious.

 

[CynicWhisper]

My scenic design class did Goose and Tomtom by David Rabe. Not a great play, but some really fun design options.

 

[Grommet]

"You can't take it with you"

No set changes.
It all takes place in one home.
It should give a decent challenge with a couple of doors and a bunch of props to find/build.

 

[erichart]

In my very first scene design class, we did Tartuffe as mentioned above, as well as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (It seems the Tennessee Williams plays are pretty popular as class projects!). Tartuffe is good, because it requires you to anticipate the blocking in terms of the design, since a lot of the scenes involve people hiding and eavesdropping.

The Greek tragedies are great for unleashing your creativity, but students can easily get lost trying to decorate the stage with ideas, rather than thinking about the use of the stage space.