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THIS SHOW WAS PERFORMED AT A SMALL BAR SPACE IN BALTIMORE, AND THE SHOW'S TWO ACTRESSES PLAY ALL IT'S CHARACTERS AS THEY GOSSIP AND TELL STORIES FROM THEIR LIVES. FOR THE DESIGN, I HAD THREE PILLARS; ESTABLISHING ENVIRONMENTS, DELINEATING THE CHARACTERS, AND CREATING THE SHOW'S SOUNDTRACK.
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SINCE THIS PLAY TOOK US TO SO MANY DIFFERENT SETTINGS, SOUND PLAYED A VITAL ROLE IN TAKING US ON THAT JOURNEY. IT WAS ALSO IMPORTANT TO MAKING IT CLEAR TO THE AUDIENCE WHERE WE WERE AT ANY GIVEN TIME. EACH LOCATION HAD IT'S OWN UNIQUE AMBIENT SOUND MIX, AND WE ASSIGNED EACH LOCATION A DIFFERENT GENRE OF MUSIC. WE PLAYED JASON MRAZ AND INGRID MICHAELSON AT THE CAFE, WE PLAYED KINGS OF LEON AT THE DIVE BAR, AND WE PLAYED AZEALIA BANKS AT THE CLUB. FOR ALL OF OUR UNDERSCORING CHOICES, WE KNEW WE WANTED MUSIC THAT WOULD QUICKLY TELL THE AUDIENCE ABOUT THE KIND OF PLACE WE WERE IN, WITHOUT TAKING US OUT OF THE 2013 POV.
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THE CENTERPIECE OF THIS SHOW IS THE LIE THAT ONE OF THE GIRLS, MIMI, HAS CRAFTED. ONCE HER LIE BEGINS TO FALL APART, SHE HAS A MOMENT WHERE SHE REFLECTS ON THE OTHER PEOPLE IN HER LIFE, WHO WE'VE ONLY KNOWN THROUGH HER PERFORMANCES OF THEM. TO REALLY DRIVE HOME MIMI'S UNRELIABILITY AS A NARRATOR, WE DECIDED TO RECORD ACTORS WHO SOUNDED LIKE REAL VERSIONS OF EACH OF THE IMPORTANT CHARACTERS, AND WE HAD THEM RECORD THE WORDS THAT MIMI RECOUNTS THEM SAYING AT THE END OF THE SHOW, SO THAT WE'RE SEEING HER PERFORMANCE OF EACH CHARACTER WHILE WE'RE HEARING THEIR REAL VOICES SPEAK. BELOW, YOU CAN SEE A CLIP FROM THE SHOW, AND ALSO HEAR THE QLAB SEQUENCE.
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FINALLY, SINCE THE SHOW TAKES PLACE IN A BAR, WE KNEW THAT WE WANTED TO HAVE A RELAXED VIBE IN THE SPACE. THE IDEA WAS THAT THE AUDIENCE MEMBERS WERE COMING TO SEE A SHOW PRODUCED BY THE CHARACTERS THEMSELVES, SO I KNEW IT WAS IMPORTANT TO BUILD A PLAYLIST FOR PRESHOW THAT WOULD SOUND LIKE SOMETHING THEY HAD PUT TOGETHER. I HAD EACH ACTOR CREATE A PLAYLIST FOR THEIR CHARACTER, AND THEN MARRIED THEIR STYLES TOGETHER TO CREATE A SOUNDTRACK FOR THE SHOW THAT FELT LIKE IT HAD BEEN HAND CREATED BY THE CHARACTERS THEMSELVES. YOU CAN LISTEN TO THIS PLAYLIST BELOW.
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