Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard is a very unusual play.It gives the ending away in the title or if you have any knowledge of Shakespeare you know what will happen. It is a behind the scenes look of Shakespeare's Hamlet through the eyes of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. R&G are lost from the beginning to the end of the show which makes you think no to take life too seriously since you will never know where you may end up. It may also make you think of choices and how the small things we do everyday make bigger impacts than we may think. The comedy of the show helps balance the final moment of death and chaos that occurs.

    During the first production meeting Callie talked to us about the core idea of the show to her was death. When I think of death the first image that pops into my head is the decay and the frame of something that used to be full of life. Which is what the set should resemble. The place that Hamlet may have taken place long ago but as R&G keep living this story the world around them deteriorates. Colors should be muted and show hints of rust and rot. Using a base that is brighter of what the world once looked like I will go over it with metal tones and earth tones to represent the lapse of time and mistreatment of the world around them. 

    For the set change into a boat we will use lots of rope and rigging equipment like that of what may be seen on a ship. The set should seem to open up or unfold to be the ship. I want it to look wider and bigger and more areas for fun things to happen during the fight scenes. I want certain pieces to brought in that have a curve like that of the bow of a ship so we get a since of which way the boat is to be pointed.