Performance Space

The performance space we have for our devised piece is almost perfect for our story, we are set in 1930's New York and our main characters are a gang, the gang operate out of a warehouse and this makes our performance space ideal as its a decent sized room with very high celling (very warehouse like) and there are white curtains on three out of the four walls, with these I plan to put stuff behind them to prop the curtains out so we can use them as wings and also give an effect that its boxes of stuff in the warehouse but covered up. We also have a few scenes in a Speakeasy bar which were traditionally underground in 1930's as alcohol was illegal and the curtains create a closed in underground effect.
This small space also enables the audience to be a little more involved with the story and the action that's going on, this helps the author aspect of the story line as I am writing a story and then the audience see it come alive right before their eyes.

For the speak easy scene we planned to have chairs set out for the characters to sit at but then we decided we would use something called a composite set, a composite set is when one thing turns into lots of other things, for example as I am playing the author and I'm in a different time period I am raised up on blocks, but we have two blocks left over still that make a kind of wall at the back, these two blocks then stand up to make the bar for the bartender and then a table in the middle of the room for the gang to stand around, this then can change into a chair for someone to sit on and so on, with this we save space of scenery as its always changing and we only really have two blocks which makes our scenery, this is also another technique that we hope to help push up our grades.