School of Architecture Dean Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk applauded the set design course for providing another layer in UM's rich offering of diverse educational opportunities.
"It is good for the School of Architecture to create opportunities for students to move into the entertainment industry and other fields beyond an architect's office," Dean Plater-Zyberk said. "We prepare our alums for diverse career options inside and outside the profession."
Lejeune observed that in recent years, as digital technologies and automated fabrication processes are fast eroding the conceptual limits between architecture, art, film, and theater, architects like Zaha Hadid, Herzog & De Meuron, Frank Gehry and many others around the world are actively working on the theatrical stage.
Sheridan said his set design's enclosed curvilinear space defined by a 10-foot high wall "makes the spectator focus on the actors, their figures and conflicts; a 70-foot curved and dome-like screen looms above the space and captures a series of constantly changing and morphing digital images."
"For Strawberry Fields the wall is fully closed, whereas for Ballymore its central section disappears to reveal an Arcadian landscape barred by a series of barbed wire," Sheridan wrote. "Architectural models of New York and Irish structures cast moving shadows on the walls. The combination wall + dome magnifies the action and with the progression of scenes the nature of the stage becomes clear: not a physical space but the representation of a mental space."
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