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Scene design for The Imaginary Invalid done at PCPA Theaterfest. We updated our play to 1779 and placed it in Philadelphia...where "the invalid" was a sea merchant of pharmaceuticals! In this photo he is checking the hiding places he has for medicines...Related content
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But , perhaps , I understood something a little different from the French atmosphere .
of course on the Atlantic coast , typical anglo saxons eighteenth century familyΒ
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Β You got it. We definitely moved it to "America".
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Wo-wo-wooooooooow , how did I never see this before?!?!?!
Oh my God!!!!! I just fell in love! I'd live my life on that stage
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Hahahaha! Thanks! It was a great setting to decorate. The scenic artists had a good time painting the curtains to look real. They are flat and painted! The library ladder though is my favourite part.
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Mine too
Yes,I noticed that curtains are painted...but I had to concentrate
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Did you design that stage? WOW! That's beautiful!
Oh your version of this play was also different than the versoin I read. In the version I read he was a hypochondriac whose wife was plotting against him, and who wanted to force his older daughter to marry a doctor who she didn't love.
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That's the basic story we used as well. We just moved it to Colonial America
Good summary, by the way. Thanks for your comment, too!
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Hello ~Miyuki0Sagashite,
I did "The Imaginary Invalid" for PCPA Theaterfest in Solvang, California.
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Fantastic design! The work put into this is amazing! 
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Hi Salemburn,
Thanks for going through my gallery and finding The Imaginary Invalid and Urinetown. I did like those two shows especially.
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What an amazing scene!
Who are those characters, Argante and Beline? (you kept the original names or you changed them?)
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Hello again LillaBullero!
The French character names were changed to American names which kept me confused for a while in the beginnng, but you have the original names just right. The American translator/playwright worked hard to keep the "American" colonial flavor in the play while being faithful to the original script.
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That's an nice interpretation, expecially because Molière mocked of his own contemporary society with all his characters, I think that's an interesting subject for an adaption!
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This is very cool! Love the overall ambiance of this. I see what you mean about the wood grain slightly coming through the rug--that is really effective! And quite charming if I may say so. I take it all the curtains are painted as well? Also, what are the ship silhouettes in the back made of? I really like them! Very nice, indeed!
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The ships in the background are opaque, painted on muslin with the lighting designer putting lights and moving waves upstage or behind the harbor scene. She liked the colonial silhouette idea.
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That sounds amazing. I think my favorite part of theatre is being resourceful and finding bizarre ways to make a great impression. : D
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is the rug painted into the floor? I love the details.
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Hi JamesMarek11,
Thank you very much for your comment. I love the details too,...and the director used every bit of the set.
Yep, the rug is painted. The scenic artist on that show took her time and did sample after sample, and we both played a bit with real American Toile painting technique. The trick on this rug was allowing the wood grain to show through just a bit. The draperies were also all painted.
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I looked up the technique and haven't found a good explanation of the technique, could you elaborate what you mean by American toile painting technique?
Wow, I didn't realize it until you had pointed it out.
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Hi JamesMarek11,
Tole painting is a specific technique usually asking you to charge your brush with two or three colors at once, and making a specific comma-like stoke/blend to make a leaf or ornament or flower petal... It is a decorative art...not considered a "fine art" by some, but beautiful none the less. Sometimes it is called Folk Art. The link below should take you to a website that has some American painted furniture done in the style.
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This book is a good one for starting tole ( toile ) painting.[link]
I apologize if the links do not work. I've just copied and pasted them.
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Thanks for the info, I've added the book to my list of "books to get."
This is a bit off topic, but do you have any other book suggestions for furniture or painting? I know I should get an art history book, but the ones i see are rather beaten up one way or another.
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Ha! Those lists of "books to get" seem to increase with our interests, don't they? I'm trying to devise the time to make a Gustav Stickley table or book case..Load of books just got added because of that. I'l check my "book list" later for painting and furniture..
I assume you don't mean run of the mill textbooks in scene painting or do you?
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this is pretty good standard book.
Thurston James has loads of great prop books. He's famous.
More anon!
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I love the drop behind the window. Also, can this be my library?
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Hi Phido--the lighting designer loved the silhouette of the tall ships in the harbour...kinda like colonial cut-out silhouettes. She even made the waves wave. And yes, the library is very cool. I'm glad you like it I would love to have something like it in my home...but where??? Ha!
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