The Design Elements!

SCENE 1: FACTORY LINE

Sound

‘Chum’ à Earl Sweatshirt

Costume

Blue shirts for boys

Pink shirts for girls

Black pants for everyone

Black socks for everyone

Props/stage

No props

Lighting

General stage wash

SCENE 2: CITYSCAPE

Sound

City ambience

Costume

Same

Props/stage

One chair in rear centre

Lighting

General stage wash

SCENE 3: CHAIR SCENE

Sound

‘Breezeblocks’ à alt j

Costume

Same

Props/stage

6 chairs

Lighting

FREDDIE and TASH in front right

SANJANA and SOPHIE in rear middle

LOLA and OLLIE in front left

General stage wash

Spotlight on OLLIE and LOLA

Spotlight on SOPHIE and SANJANA

Spotlight on FREDDIE and TASH

Spotlight on OLLIE and LOLA

Spotlight on SOPHIE and SANJANA

Spotlight on FREDDIE and TASH

General stage wash

SCENE 4: TRAIN SCENE

Sound

‘Anything you can do, I can do better’ à Betty Hutton and Howard Heel

Train ambience in the background

Costume

Same

Props/stage

Chairs dispersed randomly across the stage

TASH and FREDDIE in two chairs at front of the stage

Lighting

Spotlight on FREDDIE and TASH

Blue gel on stage

SCENE 5: TOY SCENE

Sound

‘Dollhouse’ à Melanie Martinez

Song stops abruptly

Superman theme song starts playing

Costume

Same as last scene, except SANJANA puts on a blue shirt

Props/stage

Three chairs at the front left of the stage: two next to each other, and one facing them

Lighting

General stage wash Spotlight on SOPHIE Spotlight on SANJANA

SCENE 6: PSYCHIATRIST SCENE

Sound

‘Frontier Psychiatrist’ à the Avalanches (speech comes in)

Costume

Boys and SANJANA in blue shirts

TASH, SOPHIE and LOLA in pink shirts

Props/stage

Same as last scene

Whiteboard in right corner of stage

Two chairs in the back left corner of stage

One chair downstage centre for SANJANA

Whiteboard in right corner of stage

Lighting

Blue light

Red light

SCENE 7: NIGHT CLUB

Sound

Club music comes on

Music slows down

White noise

Music fades out

Costume

Same

Props/stage

No props

Lighting

Blue and red lights

Lighting drops to dim

Spotlight on SANJANA and SOPHIE

SCENE 8: ASSEMBLY LINE AND LAYERING

Sound

No sound

Costume

Same

Props/Stage

No props, clear stage

Lighting

General stage wash and snap blackout.

Note on Costumes and Makeup: Since we are either wearing a pink shirt or a blue shirt, we wanted that to be a big signifier of our gender. The girls had slicked back ponytails with a middle parting, and red lipstick. The girls also wanted to have doll-like eyes, something like Barbies' eyes.