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The Bald Soprano scenic design
The absurd domestic scale and actor framing.
The fractured drawing-room world in performance.
Warped domestic architecture and comic tension.
Full-stage view of the absurd domestic setting in performance.
Rendering for The Bald Soprano showing the distorted domestic environment and heightened composition.
Rendering

Production

The Bald Soprano

Company

Stephens College

Creative Team

By
Eugene Ionesco
Scenic and Lighting Designer
Brandon PT Davis
Costume Designer
Briann Johnson
Sound Designer
Michael Burke
Director
Brett Olson

Notes

An absurd domestic interior bent out of proportion, where scenic and lighting design worked together to turn polite drawing-room order into something unstable, comic, and quietly threatening.

The Bald Soprano needed a domestic room that looked recognizable at first glance, then became less stable the longer the audience sat with it. At Stephens College, the scenic and lighting design treated the drawing room as a polite interior that could no longer support logic.

Because the play is built on repetition, interruption, and the collapse of language, proportion and composition became central. Furniture, architecture, and light leaned into distortion rather than strict realism.

Lighting worked as part of the architecture, sharpening awkward pauses and tonal shifts. The design let absurdity live in plain sight, inside a room still trying to behave as if everything were normal.

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