Ziming Guo

My design proposal responds to the play Black Medea by Wesley Enoch, which is an adaptation of the classical Greek drama Medea, reinterpreting the story in a contemporary Australian setting. The main concept of my design visualization is to integrate Medea and Jason’s “marital domestic house” with their opposing landscapes represented by a physical setting in a sharp contrast, focusing on the relationship between the space and the performance. This play would run in Grant Street Theatre, which is a purposebuilt drama theatre. The set I designed to evoke the landscape of both characters, which is Medea’s desert and Jason’s ocean. I tried to create a rolling landscape made out of gauze with curved edges to structure the space and transform between sand-hills and water ripples through shifts especially in the colour of lighting and music.