Space and Set



The look of the wood floor for the court

This production of As You Like It will be performed in the Milo Smith Tower Theatre to allow a more imaginative set and a closer audience/play experience. The seats will be arranged in a thrust style seating. Shakespeare's plays are open to lots of interpretation when it comes to the set. The court and the Forest of Arden will be two very different feels and therefore two very different places.

The court should be darker with harsher lighting. The floor will be a wood floor piece that can be moved on and off stage easily. The wood should be a dark and shiny, expensive looking floor. The set pieces should be able to be carried on and off easily by the cast or "servants" in the court. For example a bench for scenes with Celia and Rosalind, and a wrestling area for the wrestling scene. Each new place for the scenes should have a specific piece of furniture that can be related to that scene.



The feel/look of the Forest of Arden



Once the scenes change to the Forest of Arden the wood floor piece will come off and a new floor piece will come on. The piece should have a wooden or dirt walkway that continues from back to front. The parts that have no walkway will have grass and trees, creating a "forest" inside of the theatre. The walkways should be a lighter brown color and look dirty and worn. Posisibly even instead of a wooden path a dirt trail.

The following link brings you to a website that can help get the wood finish for the court floor that is what we are looking for without the expense of buying that wood. There is a video that shows how to get the finished product look we want by painting. This would be a cost effective way of getting the look we want but for less.

http://www.fauxfinishhowto.com/Faux_Wood_Painting.html