A Long Time Since Yesterday

Taylor Theatre
University of North Carolina Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
April 1997
Lighting Design by Jimmy Ray Ward
Costume Design by Jennifer Patrick
Directed by John Gulley

Models for this production:

A rough white model - early in the design process.

A rough CG model. Yes, it's really rough. Remember, this was grad school in 1998...Amazon.com was an upstart.

The finished, full model.

Production Notes:
Set in the early 1980's in an upper middle class neighborhood, the set for this show takes on added responsibility as Janeen, who this house reflects, has committed suicide.  We meet Janeen only sparingly in flashback scenes and thus the set must reflect all that brought Janeen to her untimely death.  In designing the space, it needed to reflect the wealth that a young doctor (Janeen's husband) would have.  It needed to reflect the taste and style that Janeen was said to have.  Above all, however, it needed to reflect Janeen's aching loneliness.  Her emptiness.  The overall layout of the ground plan was developed in conjunction with the director and his desire for levels and obstacles for the actors to work with.  Also, since the entire cast is African-American, attention had to be paid to the background (mostly the walls) so that they would not be too bright as to draw undue attention, but not be too dark, so as to blend in with the skin tones of the actors.