A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Geva Theatre Mainstage
2013
Set design: Jo Winiarski
Costume design: Devin Painter
Lighting design: Ann G. Wrightson
The biggest challenge on this show was to find exactly the right combination of texture and color treatments to render this world of bark and tree hollows in a way that felt both real and magical. Through a long series of conversations, research, and samples, we arrived at a many-layered process that utilized roughly cut cardboard strips as a base with layers of cheesecloth, Jaxsan, bead foam, and fake foliage to create the organic look of the world.