Life is a Dream
University of South Florida
Director: Dora Arreola
Scenic Designer: Jo Winiarski Linnane
Paints/Props Supervisor: Wren Beers and Lee Wilcher
Props Artisan/Scenic Painter/Interim Assistant: Lewis Bethune
Photo Credits: Sorcha Augustine
Full set, scenic painting.
Full set, close up. Scenic painting of the red circle and the black/white edge.
Another close up of the scenic painting.
Shadow concept, actors and shadow puppets, behind scrip and lit from the back to create moving, storytelling, shadows.
Actors as shadow puppets.
Spanish tower shadow puppet. Heavy, black chipboard cut out to the shape and attached to a dowel.
Shadow puppets used to tell the backstory of the play. The baby is sent to the prison tower.
Demon baby shadow puppet with actors for scale. Projected puppets appear very large, but are actually no larger than 18".