Brief Encounters An evening of one-act plays by Arlene Hutton

"Studio Portrait"
"I Dream Before I Take the Stand"
"I Dream..." ending
"House Play"
"The Price You Pay"
Process Materials
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Early sketches
Color sketch "Studio Portrait"
Color sketch "Price You Pay"
 
Production Credits

Produced by
University of Kentucky Theatre
Lexington, KY
Spring 2000

Directed by Rhoda-Gale Pollack
Costumes by Nelson Fields
Scenic and Lighting Design by
Gion DeFrancesco

 
Design Approach

Arlene Hutton's plays have clean, crisp dialogue. She makes her characters sound contemporary and direct. Each of the six plays and two monologues has a different location which the director wished to represent as simply as possible. She also was interested in a stainless steel feel.

The multi-faceted metal towers were moved and turned by the actors to represent the different locations. The color sketches were drawn in VectorWorks and hand colored.

Scene design copywrighted 2000 by Gion DeFrancesco