A VISION
COMES TO LIFE
From research to inception, the
process of creating a set design
involves many steps. Here,
Acebo shares what it took to
bring A Streetcar Named Desire
from paper to the stage.
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Do you think designers
tend to read a text
differently than directors
or actors do?
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I do. I read plays for the landscape. I read plays for how they move
through space and time in terms of what’s happening in the play, but
also in terms of the time of the theater we’re working in. I’m asking,
is it speaking to audiences in a contemporary way? With, say, Cat on
a Hot Tin Roof, I can’t just create a mansion in Mississippi, I have to
think about our audience watching it in the Bowmer [Theatre] and
what are they bringing to it, what is the play telling us about today. I
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