A Note About the
Design Concept:
Gray moves episodically
forward and backward in time among a series of real locations. In
addition, there are internal monologues involving one or more of the characters.
Because the stage is too small to physically isolate the real settings
(Laura’s apartment, a waterfront skate park, a city park, a parking lot,
a street) in separate locations, the convention of projecting an
image on the back wall to define both the physical location and the fact
that the play was in actual physical space rather than “mind space” was
established. In that way, abstract set pieces could serve as a part
of all the locations. As a “skate punk” the curve of a skater’s half-pipe
is Pack’s visual theme. Because Pack invades all aspects of Matt
and Laura’s life together, the curve is repeated in all the set pieces
and thus all the locations. When the characters are in mind space
there is never a place-indicating projection and the colors are distinctly
non-natural. Each character had a signature - cool blue-green for
Laura, amber for Matt, and blood red for Pack.
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