Christopher David Gauthier
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PictureSet for Herr Beckmann's People
HERR BECKMANN'S PEOPLE
by Sally Stubbs
June 10th - June 19th, 2010 PTC Studio - Festival House (Studio 1398)

DIRECTOR Katrina Dunn
DRAMATURGE Martin Kinch
SET DESIGNER Christopher David Gauthier
LIGHTING DESIGNER/PRODUCTION MANAGER Adrian Muir
COSTUME DESIGNER Farnaz Khaki-Sadigh
SOUND DESIGNER Jeff McMahan
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Elisha Burrows
STAGE MANAGER Marcella Helmer


CAST:
Anthony F. Ingram, Bill Marchant, Dawn Petten, Donna Carroll White and Christine Willes



I came late to the project replacing a designer who needed to leave for personal reasons. Although never an easy situation working with Katrina Dunn and Touchstone Theatre proved exciting and challenging. 
We worked backwards in essence with Dunn's vision of the final scene of the play being the painting which Dawn Petten's character has been working on finally revealed to the audience as a tableau, the actors taking their places against a backdrop to form the "picture". 
From there it was diving into book after book of Max Beckmann's work. 
All the images, symbols, etc found on the wall were inspired by his work. Many of the items were designed to be removed and used by the actors during the course of the play. Providing further challenges the locations needed to jump quickly so a bookcase spun around to be a bar, and a "piano" was that, as well as table, bench, and "treehouse".
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Herr Beckmann's People
Herr Beckmann's People - the easel, bookcase, boxes etc were all removable for use in the play
Herr Beckmann's People - the chair could also be hung on the wall
The "piano" which also served as table/bench/treehouse etc
Herr Beckmann's People
Herr Beckmann's People
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