medea set design

Audience Size

I want a large crowd, as I want 200-350 people there as I nt this show to get known by many. I feel haveing a alarge crows with help a=make everyone feel involved in the play

Medea Set Design

by Ryan Haase

Idea of my own

spotlight on jASON AND KIDS

evil Spirit

hologram usage

leaves blowing

So, I would have the evil spirit look like the picture above with fire in background. I would shine a spotlight on Jason and the kids for the hologram to make the rest of set dissapear. I would have leaves blowing every now in then to emphasis the environment Medea is living in

Practicles

Example of Stage Type

I would have these as my practicals on stage. They are a couch Medea randomly finds, a makeshift wood chair, trees, rocks with water streaming down, and Medeas hut she built in the jungle

For the type of play Im doing, this set up is the most appropriate as I want to have a large audience and witht his view they take in the design of the stage the best.

Background

History/Set Design

I would make this my background on the stage. I would have the stage designers paint trres in the background with a picture of a waterfall to show the setting of the jungle. Also, there would be a ladder for Medea to climb one of the trees. Rocks and branches would be pout on the ground of the stage.

Greek Mythology helped influence famous Greek theater over the years. Modern scholars refer to and study the myths in an attempt to shed light on the religious and political institutions of Ancient Greece and its civilization, and to gain understanding of the nature of myth-making itself.The plays would portray concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. It was a part of the religion in ancient Greece and started around 700 BC. Different performers would compete at Greek festivals to see who could portray the best character of a god or nature of the world. A play writer who wrote many famous plays was Euripedes. He wrote the famous play Medea in 431 BC, which is a tragedy between Jason and Medea’s myth as Medea seeks revenge.

My version of the play Medea is the conflict between what reality is and what a figment of your imagination is. The setting takes place on an abended island near Somalin islands near the Philippines. Medea believes that Jason is there and that she has 2 children as well. There is a mystical spirit that has caused her to go insane and loose sign of reality. She must go on an adventure to finally realize her world is not real. She finally overcomes the evil spirit at the end and is raised into the heavens above to meet with Jason and 2 children.

That play will take part on the beach where she lives in an old torn up house that no one is in except her. She also will be in the jungle so I will have trees, swamp, rocks, and coconuts on the set. I want to let the audience truly understand how alone she really is and how far life is from her as she is the only one on the island.

work cited

Ancient Greece. (2012, April 5). Retrieved April 13, 2016, from http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Theatre/