Stone and Sparrow

Scenic Design

Department of Theater Studies
Yale University, 2014

Director: Annette Jolles
Original Book: Laurel Durning-Hammond
Original Score: Alex Ratner
Lighting: Amanda Chang
Costumes: Eleanor Michotte

Produced as a Theater Studies seminar course with professional director Annette Jolles, Stone and Sparrow is a student-written folk musical set in the 1920s in a West Virginian mining town. The set recalls the slap-dash architecture of early twentieth-century mining infrastructure while outlining the architectonic elements of the play’s various settings: kitchen, porch, neighborhood well, schoolhouse, and mine shaft.

“Worlds”

The set is a single structural framework containing smaller zones or “worlds” to be inhabited by actors in different scenes, sometimes simultaneously. Props placed by actors in the course of the play make these worlds come alive.