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Set Design and Costume
  • The Caucasian Chalk Circle
  • By Bertolt Brecht.
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To decide your set design for this play is important because it will provide you with a stage onto which you can imagine your performance as an actor playing different roles in the play.
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Step 1:
  • List the scenes and the locations in which they
  • are set.



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Step 2:
  • Make  a list of any  scenery that will be needed
  • or  staging that is special to the scene,
  • e.g the gallows from scene 5 onwards.


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Step 3:
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Step 4:
  • Consider how you are  going to change from
  • scene to scene on your stage:


  •  revolve,
  • trucks bringing on portable flats,
  • use of curtain,
  • scrim,
  • allow the audience to see all changes,
  • use same stage all the way through and show changes symbolically.


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Step 5:
  • Make sure that the scenes can follow each
  • other easily – so draw or describe the way in
  • which these changes can happen.


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Step 6:
  • What are the themes of the play or the overriding
  • image you want to get across to the audience in your set
  • design – this will help you choose the design and lighting.


  • It will help you make clear the message of the play and
  • help your performances believe in the world you have
  • created for them to perform an tell the story in.
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Step 7:
  • Research stage design for this production on the
  • internet.


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"Grusha"
  • Grusha  (right) and the other servants scramble to escape the erupting civil war
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"Grusha tries to convince a..."
  • Grusha tries to convince a peasant woman  to hide the infant prince from two soldiers
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Grusha escapes across a rickety mountain bridge.
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"Grusha"
  • Grusha  and her soldier-fiancé, Simon,  reunite unexpectedly by the stream
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Grusha defends herself in the court of Azdak with Simon and the cook by her side.
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To decide your set design for this play is important because it will provide you with a stage onto which you can imagine your performance as an actor playing different roles  the play.
  • Step 1: List the scenes and the locations they are set in.


  • Step 2: Make  a list of any  scenery that will be needed or  staging that is special to the
  • scene – e.g the gallows from scene 5 onwards.


  • Step 3: Consider how you are  going to change from scene to  scene on your stage:
  •  revolve,
  • trucks bringing on portable flats,
  • use of curtain,
  • scrim,
  • allow the audience to see all changes,
  • use same stage all the way through and show changes symbolically.


  • Step 4: Make sure that the scenes can follow each other easily – so draw the way in
  • which these changes can happen.


  • Step 5: What is are the themes of the play or the overriding image you want to get across to the audience in
  • your set design – this will help you choose the design and lighting.  It will help you make clear the
  • message of the play and help your performances believe in the world you have created for them to
  • perform an tell the story in.


  • Step 6: Choose the type of stage you are going to use.


  • Step 7: Research stage design for this production on the internet.


  • Step 8: Draw or design your stages for this play.