DESCRIBE THE NIGHT

By Joseph Rajiv 

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DESIGN TEAM

Director Sam Buchanan
Scenic Designer Aline Toloto
Lighting Designer Katy Baronich
Sound Designer Tristan King
Costume Designer Rebecca Earehart
Compositor Jax Wright


Describe the Night is about personal truth among people, and social truth controlled by those in power who hide it through propaganda and false narrative. The stage is divided between two platforms, creating physical distance and reinforcing the psychological separation among characters who engage in dialogues between the past and the future. The set explores the search for the underlying truth about the social structures in which the characters are trapped and evokes the challenge to find out who they are. In a world in which truth itself is broken and deteriorated, is it even possible to know what to believe? 

INSPIRATIONAL IMAGES

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Scenic inspirational images

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Images selected by the design team

CREATIVE PROCESS

Software: SketchUp and Lumion 11

1 | First ideas
- Impact of the man-made world into natural world
- Industrial looking

2 | Physical separation
- Overlapping other spaces
- Disconnection from the reality

3 | Stalin's broken world
Interest in showing the bones, exploring the structures.

4 | Final 3D model
Use of the shop door as part of the set. That space would represent the past and darkness of authoritarianism.

VIRTUAL PROPS VS REAL PROPS

I was also the props master for the production and we decided to use a mix of virtual and real properties.
Using green or blue cubes as seating in the pods, we were able
to use virtual furniture and composite two actors seating in the same couch.

Individual prop shelf inside of the pod.

White model of the couch. 
SketchUp model from the warehouse.

The compositor was able to chroma key the green/blue color out and place the actors "together".


This design started as a traditional theatre stage production, but due to COVID, we switched to a virtual live performance where we inserted live actors into the virtual environment. The actors were safe and separated from each other in streaming pods designed by our Technical Director Jay Morris.

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We were able to keep the same concept created during the creative process but now in a virtual environment.

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Initial rendering for our theatre space.

PRODUCTION PICTURES

VIRTUAL THEATRE

A new way of making virtual theater

Embracing the opportunity to go outside the Theatre has given us the chance to expand our world and emphasize different nuances that we could not imagine before.

STREAMING PodCAST

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