An Interview With CHEKHOV Designer Matt Bouloutian: Sketch #2

MB: There was just something about the top hat's interior space that was compelling. I normally would avoid using a cliche such as a light bulb in reference to thinking or ideas, but I saw lightbulbs used in the set design. In reading the script, the pace of the story has a tumbling effect, as if all of these lives and voices are tumbling together. So that's the reason for the light bulb formed from falling people. The light bulb's swinging and the figure breaking away added visual tension.

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