Initial idea/design

After deciding that we wanted to do the play measure for measure and set it in Cartegena we started brainstorming a design and what it is we wanted people to experience when entering into the space. The main things that would be part of the design would be two opposing buildings from the play and these would be the monastery/ religious building and a brothel. We feel this represents Isabella's choice within the play, she is torn between the life she already has within the church/state or the choice she has been given by Angelo and her brother.

We want a full immersion of the feeling of being in Cartegena and this would include giving the feeling of being part of the culture, we want to have street sellers with crates selling fruit. This would allow us to create the scene changes from the crates to be able to adapt them and move them around into the settings.
We think that it would be a good idea to set in a time that would be relevant to the play and this would be perfect to have Pablo Escabar as the dukes character.

We want the set to colourful but appropriate to each part of the set for example the church building would be well kept but a dullish colour in comparison to the brothel which we feel should be garish but the paint is faded and wearing down. Bunting would add a sense of place by using the colours of the Columbian flag.

Perhaps the addition of a canopy has been suggested and this would add a sense of oppression and feeling trapped within this concept, this idea of façade and oppressions would be highlighted by the use of favelas on the tops of each of the building to give an effect that all these people are being effected by the decisions of the state.