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THE LAST GOODBYE • World Premiere Production
THE LAST GOODBYE • World Premiere Production
Williamstown, MA, United States
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THE LAST GOODBYE • World Premiere Production
Williamstown, MA, United States
For the world premiere stage production of The Last Goodbye, a Musical
Adaptation of Romeo & Juliet featuring the music of Jeff Buckley, I
worked as the Production Designer, collaborating with Michael Kimmel -
the project's creator, writer + director. Our aim was to anchor the raw
emotion and reckless abandon of Shakespeare's teenage lovers in the
visceral and gritty reality of Jeff Buckley's New York City - the East
Village, the Bowery and the Lower East Side of the late 1990's. The Candle Building at 11 Spring Street in New York City - a worldwide
mecca for street artists throughout Buckley's 1990's, encased with years
of wheat-paste paper graffiti + street art plastered over regal 19th
century brick detailing, cornerstones and archways, and more recently
gut renovated, re-pointed and sold as a $26m single family home - served
as my architectural anchor of the space. To define an open street for
our Verona, I designed a sweeping panorama of 11 Spring St inspired
facades - with encrusted + peeling art on stage right gradually fading
across the upstage wall to a pristine and regal architecture on stage
left. An ornamental metal balcony, reminiscent of the Bowery Ballroom's
2nd floor, ringed the stage. The driving narrative vehicle in the
design, echoing a major riff of the text and music, was having the
actors tear off layers of wheat-paste street art from the walls to
reveal other imagery, pivotal emblems and architectural devices.
Gradually stripping the monumental surfaces of the angst and raw
emotion, the text concludes in the tomb. As Benvolio sings Buckley's
harrowing cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," wrenching grief is
followed by hope, salvation and redemption... and the upstage walls fly
away as blindingly cold white light floods into the space.
Adaptation of Romeo & Juliet featuring the music of Jeff Buckley, I
worked as the Production Designer, collaborating with Michael Kimmel -
the project's creator, writer + director. Our aim was to anchor the raw
emotion and reckless abandon of Shakespeare's teenage lovers in the
visceral and gritty reality of Jeff Buckley's New York City - the East
Village, the Bowery and the Lower East Side of the late 1990's. The Candle Building at 11 Spring Street in New York City - a worldwide
mecca for street artists throughout Buckley's 1990's, encased with years
of wheat-paste paper graffiti + street art plastered over regal 19th
century brick detailing, cornerstones and archways, and more recently
gut renovated, re-pointed and sold as a $26m single family home - served
as my architectural anchor of the space. To define an open street for
our Verona, I designed a sweeping panorama of 11 Spring St inspired
facades - with encrusted + peeling art on stage right gradually fading
across the upstage wall to a pristine and regal architecture on stage
left. An ornamental metal balcony, reminiscent of the Bowery Ballroom's
2nd floor, ringed the stage. The driving narrative vehicle in the
design, echoing a major riff of the text and music, was having the
actors tear off layers of wheat-paste street art from the walls to
reveal other imagery, pivotal emblems and architectural devices.
Gradually stripping the monumental surfaces of the angst and raw
emotion, the text concludes in the tomb. As Benvolio sings Buckley's
harrowing cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," wrenching grief is
followed by hope, salvation and redemption... and the upstage walls fly
away as blindingly cold white light floods into the space.
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