Orlando tells an unrealistic story that Orlando lived around four hundred years from The Elizabeth Age to the Twentieth Century, who has a great experience to complete self-cognition. The transformation in this play gave me a sense of the magic world, so that my design concept is through the time travel, Orlando finished a self-reflection at the end.
In my set design, I made a model that contains four different sizes of cubes with doors and a window as small rooms, there are also some steps for performers to go up and down, each box has a different height to represent progression of time as the level increases. For those doorways, when Orlando walk through and finished a movement from one door to the other door, it means a transition of next century. As for the circle platform in the center, the mirror on the surface reflects Orlando for self-discovery.
As for the lighting design, I tried to use lighting to express and distinguish each era that each small room has a different color, there is only one room will be light in a time to show the transition of time, while the outside space should be dark.
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Xinyue
Tu
Performance Design
My name is Xinyue Tu, I am a recently graduated student who completed a Bachelor of Design at the University of Melbourne in 2021. My major is Performance Design and minor in architecture.
In the last two years of studying, I have finished the Lighting design for Dawn (by Federico Garcia Lorca), the Costume design concept for Metamorphoses (by Mary Zimmerman), Set design for Black Medea (by Wesley Enoch), and Set and Lighting design for Orlando (by Sarah Ruhl).
Orlando