set model by Derek McLane
citation below
McLane:[Based on Ingmar Bergman’s film Smiles of the Summer Night, the setting is late 19th–century Sweden]. In the first act, before we go the country, there are these portals. They’re translucent and they have these Magritte-style birch trunks on them. Various pieces come on- and offstage—bedrooms, sitting rooms. At the end of the first act, when we go to the country, the portals fly out, and the country house appears, surrounded by a forest of enormous leaves. The house’s windows light up, and it has a human-size door [even though it is a half-height unit]. In the second act, the house changes positions a number of times, sometimes going all the way offstage. Desiree’s bedroom is a large canopied bed. There are a couple more units—garden architecture—that come downstage in different combinations, as we move to scene to scene. For the banquet scene, a really huge chandelier comes in, all the way down to the floor, with tables and chairs set up in front of it. My favorite part of this design is the giant photographic leaves."
excerpt from Derek McLane: A Designer’s Diary, Part II. Apr 1, 2002 12:00 PM, Derek McLane. in Live Design. retrieved 19.05.09 from http://livedesignonline.com/mag/show_business_derek_mclane_designers/
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