Director: Elgin Martin • Lighting Design: Emma Smith • Costume Design: Yoobin Han • Photography: Emma Brown
Because the script called for quick transitions between the past and the present and because we were in a black box space, we chose to create two distinct acting areas at the front and back of the space, with the audience seated on the sides. Callie’s apartment was intended to be a warm, inviting, and naturalistic space, one fit for a proud, well-adjusted New Yorker. The other side of the space needed to be versatile—a hospital room, a cafe, a police station. For this space, we used the image of a newspaper frozen in time as it is being carried off by the wind. The event is of course national news, and Callie cannot escape it.
