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Set Design in Drama
Summary: An account of a set designer's role in the production of Richard Benyon's play "The Shifting Heart." The set designer is responsible not only for building a set, but also for eliciting the intended emotional response and attiutdes from audiences. For Benyon's play, about racist attitudes confronting Italian migrants in Australia during the early 1960s, a set that has the look and feel in line with the play's context is critical.
The shifting heart by Richard Beynon is an Australian drama showing the racist attitudes confronting Italian migrants in Australia's in the early 1960's. I focused on this play to demonstrate my role as set designer in my production team, for this task. The period in which the play was set was the 1960's starting at Christmas eve at 4:00pm. The play is set in Collingwood, a working-class part of Melbourne. My role as set designer can be crucial in the same aspects of the play; getting a set that looks and feels to fit the context of the play is the aim, and this is what my role is based on. Getting it wrong as a set designer can put the whole production team, however successful, in the black and really mess things up.
"A designer/technician supports the directors interpretation and clarifies the aesthetic style of play...
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