Set design for Handbag
Mark Ravenhill reinvents Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of Being Earnest". The 5 characters of the play travel between the Victorian era and present tense from one scene to another.
Year
2012
Category
ArtWork
Type of Work
Research
Set design
Visualisation
The central point of the play, in which the two described worlds meet, takes place in a bathtub. That's why the decor is an oversized Victorian bathtub with backlit. To mark the transition between the two dimensions, the color of the tub changes frequently. So are the costumes of the characters, which are made of
elements that add quickly, but change the meaning of clothing. The play area is connected to the bathtub, like the plot of the Victorian story is currently being repeated. This play makes us think that the society of the past is very similar with the one nowadays. The costumes are inspired by Victorian clothing, which our era has stripped of formalities.
