ANGELS IN AMERICA,  Scenic Design

By Tony Kushner

Resident Ensemble Players, Newark, Delaware

Directed by: Steve Tague

Lighting Design: Matt Richards

Costume Design: Kim Sorenson

Sound Design: John Stovieck

For Tony Kushner’s “gay Fantasia,” I designed a vast blue room as the vessel of multiple scenes.. In this minimal environment  I employed the use of very specific furniture choices to distinctly render the scenes.   I also designed a huge  skylight center stage to hint at a New York  world  and to serve as the faming device of the show.

Two open doorways, designed as cutouts from the back wall of the stage, were employed regularly as thresholds. They were traversed solely by fantasy and spectral characters who, by crossing into the central room, embodied the world of the play.