THE METAL CHILDREN
Light and Set Design

University of North Carolina Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
Directed by Jim Fisher
2013

NY Apartment

1st Transition

Motel Transition

Motel

Meredith Miller Song in Motel Room

Hospital with Stacy Transition

Hospital with Stacy

Tobin's Speech

Tobin's Speech

Park with Statue

Final Moment

MODEL: NY Apartment 1st Scene

MODEL: Motel

MODEL: Hospital

MODEL: High School

MODEL: Park with Statue

MODEL: NY Apartment Final Scene

3D Rendering of Park

Metal Children follows the journey of a young adult novelist Tobin Falmouth as he travels to a small town who’s citizens force him to defend his art and his life.  As he travels from the reality of New York to the alien landscape of Midlothia, the lights reflect the new foreign atmosphere that envelops the emotional life of the main characters.  Along with infusing the different locales with non-realistic color, such as vivid greens, accents of gold were used to emphasize moments when the spirit of Meredith Miller (the main character of Tobin’s novel) was awakened in the plays characters.


With my set, I wanted an outward projection of Tobin's inner conflict.  This was represented in the mosaic image of a teenage, pregnant Meredith Miller.  This portrait, like the novel, looms over Tobin and eventually changes his life, even after he has moved on from Midlothia.