Arthur Rackham

I have chosen to look at the play Ashputtel by Carol Ann Duffy (adapted form the Grimm tales). I am focusing on scene eight, the third and final feast, where Ashputtel loses her slipper.







I started my research with Rackham (1829-1939) as he did illustrations for the Grimm tales. My production designs would fall into the fantasy genre. The theme I explored was fairgrounds. The idea for the stage was for it to be bright with lots of lights, and for the back drop to be in black and white. This idea came from 'The Wizard of Oz', where the two tone
world represents normal boring everyday life and the colourful world represents something exciting.












































































Saturday, 27 November 2010

Helter Skelter




I want to make the everything more detailed. So I have been looking at more fairground images. I like this image by Alan Aldridge taken from The Beatles Illustrated lyrics (1969). It's a good example of putting a helter skelter into a fantasy genre. I like how Aldridge has wrapped the helter skelter around an organic shape.


I did a quick sketch of this in black and white to see how something like this would work in my stage design.
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