STRANGE DEVICES FROM THE DISTANT WEST: Spring 2021 — GABRIELA ROJO

Strange Devices from the Distant West by Naomi Iizuka

Spring 2021
Theatre for a New Audience
Scenic Design: Gabriela Rojo
Professor: Mimi Lien

ACT 1

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The pupil functions like a kind of camera lens- but it's not showing exactly what you're seeing. Because at the center of the eye, there’s this tiny hole, a blind spot- A pinprick of nothingness.

It’s your brain that fills in the blank, it’s your brain that brings to bear everything you know or think you know, everything you remember to fill in that strange and intolerable emptiness (and mystery).

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Like an old photograph exposed to the light.

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ACT 2

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ACT 3

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The image of her is growing imperceptible. Only a bleached out whiteness remains. Blackout

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Strange Devices from the Distant West by Naomi Iizuka

Spring 2021
Theatre for a New Audience
Scenic Design: Gabriela Rojo
Professor: Mimi Lien

IN THE PENAL COLONY: Spring 2020

A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE: Fall 2018