april 2023 highlights

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View this email in your browser designer shoutouts! Marsha Ginsberg congrats on your Obie Awards special citation for “English”! thanks Marsha for the photos! congrats on closing to… Collette Pollard “Fen” at Court Theatre in Chicago! Michael Brosilow Taken from @courttheatre on Instagram “In a remarkable set by Collette Pollard, the actors work literally in dirt, mounded into rows on tiered platforms. They dig real potatoes and bag real onions. As the play goes on, their clothes are increasingly soiled. One of the few male characters in the play, Frank (Alex Goodrich, who also plays the other male roles) drives an actual tractor across the set. Waterfowl call eerily in the distance. Interior settings are suggested by just a few pieces—a stove, a table—set in the dust.” - “Singing In Harmony: A Review of Fen at Court Theatre” New City Stage, Mary Wisniewski & “Describe the Night” at The Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago Photo by Kyle Flubacker taken from @steppenwolfthtr “Collette Pollard’s set manages to combine minimalism and menace quite effectively.” - “The lies of others” Chicago Reader, Kerry Reid dots dots is a design collective based in New York City specializing in designing environments for narratives, performances, and experiences. Hailing from Colombia, South Africa and Japan, we are Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, Andrew Moerdyk, and Kimie Nishikawa. We offer expertise in multi-disciplinary projects ranging from theater design to opera and film. Recent Credits: The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (BAM), Public Obscenities (Soho Rep), Dark Disabled Stories (Bushwick Starr and the Public Theater), Thumbprint (Portland Opera), KATE (Connelly Theater), You Will Get Sick(Roundabout) www.designbydots.com “Public Obscenities” at Soho Rep. in New York Photo by Julieta Cervantes “And the sunny one-room set, by dots, a scenic-design collective, is ravishing in its simplicity and use of soft canary yellow (and burning incense).” - Critic’s Pick “Review: ‘Public Obscenities’ Pushes Far Beyond One Field of Study” New York Times, Juan A. Ramírez & “Dark Disabled Stories” at The Public in New York Photo by Santiago Orjuela Laverde “Despite the show’s title, ‘Dark Disabled Stories’ is colorfully designed and cleverly directed.  Even the captions become like actors in the stories, changing fonts and colors and energetically moving around (in ways that make them easier, not more difficult to read.)” - “Dark Disabled Stories Review” New York Theater, Jonathan Mandell Hana Kim projection design for “The Harder They Come” also at The Public in New York by Joan Marcus taken from @publictheaterny “One of the most inventive scenes is set at The Rialto, a cinema where Ivan and some acquaintances watch a Western film. A white sheet becomes the film screen, and spinning velvet sets become a barrier” - “'The Harder They Come' review — new musical has big beats and big potential” New York Theatre Guide, Allison Considine Guest User Previous Previous may 2023 highlights