Mary’s Wedding

Scenic Design

Bristol Valley Theatre - 2012

Directed by Suzi Takahashi

Mary's Wedding, produced at Bristol Valley Theatre in Naples, NY is an example of a design where intimacy, function, and detail reign supreme. The show's action takes place as a memory or dream containing flashbacks and correspondence between a pair of young lovers separated by World War 1.

While the play's action takes place in a barn, the space also needed to serve as a shell-impacted battlefield and a great plain across which we experience the couple galloping on horseback. 

On the battlefield, barren tree branches at the foot of the stage suddenly feel like barbed wire.

Riding on horseback, the pair mounts a beam in the barn and as their ride intensifies the tattered fabric panels hanging in the space began to blow in the wind!