Thurston High School

Stagecraft Website

(All non-student designs are by Mark Huisenga, Instructor)

Sample Designs:

	Bye Bye Birdie / The Car trunk opened to reveal one setting, and the tail lights opened to show actors faces, the scrapbook cover SR opened to reveal the 2 story inside of the MacAfee House, and the album cover SL opened to reveal the Bar scene. Birdie and his fans...notice that the taillights are in place.
Macbeth / Student Design - Student design teams were given a list of requirements and materials, including 4 4x8 plexiglass panels, with a deadline to come up with a design. The winning design was then built by the winning team, and painted by the entire class. At the last minute, small pieces of plyveneer (a cardboard/plywood product) were screwed onto the frame to create the ancient stonework of a medieval castle.
	White drapes dropped behind Plexiglass Panels to reveal Macbeth's victims during final duel with MacDuff. ALOT of stage blood was splattered, spilled, and sprayed during this show...we're still trying to get it off the walls!

Bye Bye Birdie / The Car trunk opened to reveal one setting, and the tail lights opened to show actors faces, the scrapbook cover SR opened to reveal the 2 story inside of the MacAfee House, and the album cover SL opened to reveal the Bar scene.

Birdie and his fans...notice that the taillights are in place.

Macbeth / Student Design - Student design teams were given a list of requirements and materials, including 4 4x8 plexiglass panels, with a deadline to come up with a design.

The winning design was then built by the winning team, and painted by the entire class.

At the last minute, small pieces of plyveneer (a cardboard/plywood product) were screwed onto the frame to create the ancient stonework of a medieval castle.

White drapes dropped behind Plexiglass Panels to reveal Macbeth's victims during final duel with MacDuff.

ALOT of stage blood was splattered, spilled, and sprayed during this show...we're still trying to get it off the walls!

As You Like It / Set provided for Lord Leebrick Theater (local semi-pro theater) in the spring of 2002. Triangular periaktois turned to reveal three different seasons / settings.

Scene at right is "Winter"

Cinderella / The Garden Scene: The free-wheeling window units moved from upstage as interior windows, to downstage of the partiers, who would from time to time, snoop by peaking out of the windows at the Prince and Cinderella.

Cinderella / The morning after, Cinderella "imagines" how it must have been at the Ball.

The center fireplace/stair/castle unit included a fire that started itself, flowers that "appeared in flower pots. It came onstage directly in front of the main castle turret, seen upstage.

The window and door units were practicals that moved independently.

Cinderella's Coach was actually 6 panels and 2 large disks, handled by actors.

The pieces "flew" in and swirled into place. They tilted upstage, to catch the vertical light as much as possible.

More Set Design Sample Pics

Richard III (1st Lord Leebrick Set)