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.