“The Red Line”
(A virtual performance)
The Red Line is the ACT Club's 2021 Original Production, Presented Online!
"In the not-so-distant future, the governments of the world make an unprecedented decision: to save an overcrowded Earth, they would send half of the planet’s population to live on Mars.
Families will be torn apart … friends and rivals will be confronted ... and the bonds we once thought immutable will be tested by the vastness of space. Now is the age when everyone must ask themselves: What do you do when you lose everything? How do you start over in a world that you don’t recognize? And how do you hold onto what truly matters?
Now is the age … of The Red Line."
Because of the current COVID-19 situation, we had to adapt the play to an online setting. It was an incredible opportunity to rethink stage design for a virtual Zoom platform. For me, design is even more fascinating when it comes to challenges and constraints. In a contradictory way, I find it opens new horizons and opportunities for creation. For the set design of The Red Line, I experimented with and used virtual sets, green screens, and optical illusions. Through this project, I also learned to transform/reinvent things and objects actors had at home into something else. For example, a table was used in many different ways: as an outdoor bench, like a suitcase cargo to hide under, as a stand for vegetables in the market, etc. Finally, the set design of the second act (happening on Mars) was made using recycled materials such as plastic bags, cardboard boxes, and bubble wrap because I envisioned life on Mars as a “second chance for humanity” (garbage from earth was reused/recycled on Mars to build the new city).