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SET AND RESET
BEOWULF BORITT
The Vivian Beaumont Theater is a wonderful “thrust” stage, my favorite kind to work on. For Act One, James Lapine said that he wanted a world where Moss Hart could run madly up and downstairs and bang on closed doors, a world which could physically exhibit the enthusiasm of a youth trying to break into show business. The set was a massive turntable with a three-story skeletal world of 1920s New York City with all the play’s locations existing as little spaces within it. In Flying Over Sunset, the set was inspired by a very abstracted notion of the human brain. It started as a perfect circular sixty- foot diameter volume of space which then twisted and morphed into the various real and imagined locations of the story.
Header Photo: Act One, 2014
Photos courtesy of Beowulf Boritt.
