From the Desk of the Scenic Designer...

Model of the set design for "Take Me Out"


Tonight is the first readthough of our upcoming production of Take Me Out. On a typical readthrough, actors get a chance to meet each other (sometimes for the first time), designs for the production are introduced, and the play is read for the first time by the actors who will be playing those roles. All of this leads to a general discussion, lead by the director, on the themes and messages of the play and what that particular production is trying to say.

Othen times, it is the first chance for the actors to see any kind of set design. As an exclusve for The Drip, we've browbeat our set designer Michael Sullivan into sending us a preview of the set design. I've included his notes about what he was thinking about as he was designing.

From scenic designer Michael Sullivan:
" I told Terry that this script was a challenge to design since it doesn’t lend itself to any obviously interesting visual solutions….Yankee stadium, locker rooms? All needing to be suggested but also “come and go” with fluidity. The end result(with little time to really allow a design to develop) was to focus on the necessary locales…lockers, showers….the rest of the places can be just about anywhere. We decided that the “room” where Mungit is confronted would be in the suggested ball field. Nothing literal about any of this, just a series of monologues held together(somehow) by the essence of a baseball environment….it is still evolving with collaborator Susan White designing lights…."