Set design, Lighting and Sound

Set design, Lighting and Sound

The play is set in a small stockroom in a school and so the thrust setting makes the set quite enclosed and gives the impression of it being small. You would only have one real wall and the three where the audience are seated would be imaginary. The props in front of the audience would have to be at a height that they don’t get in the way. The taller props such as shelves would go at the end where there is no audience, so it is not in the way. The bike dominates the room by being in the centre. It is facing away from the back so that most of the audience can see.

Because the play is set in a small stockroom, I don’t think there would be much light apart from that coming through the window. To make the light coming through the window to look natural you could use a diffuser which would make the light softer around the edges. Because the play is set over most of the day, the light coming through the window would have to get darker as the play went on.

The music that Barry Keefe used would not have been what kids were listening to in 1976. The Rolling Stones would have been classed as ‘old man music’ so would not have been listened to by 16 year olds. Punk was only just starting to become popular but not enough for many people to listen to it.