A Study in Scarlet & Silver

• How would you describe the venue (setting for the building, lobby, theatre space)? It was set in multiple locations.  Macbeth moved us from outside in a garden to the inside of a church.  There were blog-like papermache sculptures in the garden.  I felt like I was in a mystical world.  I had never experienced a play in which you move around.  I think it made it that much more engaging and immersive.  The sets, props, and costumes showed signs of the artist’s hand.  I loved that they looked hand made.   • How did the actual architecture/design of the space make you feel and/or affect your experience? It was definitely very immersive.  I particularly liked the special effects of the audio that sounded like a battle scene.  It surround the walkway that funneled the crowd onto the next scene.  The fog, battlecries, and clashing of swords made me feel like I was in the thick of a war.  I feel like this could have ...

• What was the venue like for each of these events? (Include the food-related events as well.) How did the architecture/design of the spaces make you feel, and how did that affect your experiences? For the first painting workshop we did with Steven Wright we were placed in a rather dull room.  However, once we pasted our paintings to the wall it made it less formal and more fun.  The paintings acted as a humanizing agent to the fairly sterile room.  You could feel and see the personalities radiating from the collage.  Our next workshop was in a different area, it resembled a lobby.  This was a little bit more colorful due to a large abstract painting.  It could be a combination of a more informal setting or the fact that we all were a little less nervous about creating art, but everyone had a strong creative flow on the second day.  When we showed up to Steven’s House of Dreams there was nothing formal about it.  Plastered everywhere, f...

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