In “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens adapted into a play by Charles Ludlam, Ebenezer Scrooge goes through a life-changing transformation. This play focuses on the correlation of the spirit world and the living world. Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by four ghosts who show him that he needs to change his many flaws to make himself a better person. In the beginning, he is a greedy business executive, and by the end he has transformed, through the visitations, into a jolly shadow of himself. For this production, we set the time period during the1840’s in London, England. We had to keep this in mind when making the props because we didn’t want them to be modern-looking. We looked at many diferent amature and professional productions and well pictures for inspirations for our designs . For our pieces we made the color scheme: blacks, greys, and browns to keep a dark tone to the comedic production. Our first prop that we created for this production is Tiny Tim’s crutch, which was formed out of scrap pieces of wood from a broken chair and a few screws. The wood was given an aged appearance to fit the Cratchit family’s poor home setting. We used brown and blacks to paint the crutch itself. With the different dark tones, it …show more content…
The script says that it's “not well taken care of, more neglected, and unkempt.” The tombstone was created to look small and cheap To illustrate the money-hoarding nature of Scrooge. Inspiration was taken from old colonial gravestones which, because of their age, have a natural worn, neglected appearance. This project was mainly constructed with foam and is painted to look like granite. By accenting it with a light gray and patches of dark gray, white, blue, black, and even green,gives it a textured, aged look was given to the gravestone. We labeled “E. SCROOGE” onto the stone to tie it into the darker, monotonous color scheme of the play