| The exercise is to design a stage set for Bertolt
Brecht's "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny."
an opera published in 1929 to be staged on the small
experimental/ thrust stage theater called a "black
box" at the Denver Center for the performing Arts.
While keeping the author's intention -an attack on
the translation of human value into money-, the stage
set tries to cover the all scenes through a single
fixed
stage as required by the program.
Street: It is made out of corrugated metal board,
which represents the temporality of the city and adapts
classical perspective effects to give the audience
an optical illusion when they walk through it. The
Cabaret "As You Like It": It is located
at the center
on the stage, since it serves most of scenes of the
play.
Electric Chair: By extending the stair, the ritual
scene which is the climax of the play is exaggerrated.
Audience seats: Separating these seats into two different
groups einforces the rage of the audience.
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