Selkie - Set and Props
Selkie - Set and Props
Themes:
Coming to the place where you belong, Knowing who
you are, Learning to express your authentic self
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RESEARCH
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Orkney Islands
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History
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Culture
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Johnsmas Foy
June Festival
During Summer Dim
To celebrate Saint John
Traditions: singing songs, dancing until the sun sets,
telling tales, searching to find the magic fern blossom
at midnight, jumping over bonfires, greeting the rising
midsummer sun and washing the face with morning
dew
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Crofters
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Set Dressing
House Items Small Items Set Pieces
4-5 Stools Fiddle Stand Ocean
Rocking Chair Hanging Herbs Rocks
Cupboards Butter Churner Rocky Path
Spinning Wheel Cast Iron Pots Bushes
Peat Fireplace: Hanging Fish Torches of Heather
compressed earth Spools of Thread
used for fuel
Dishes
Aisins: the edge of
the roof that
overhangs the
exterior siding. The
eaves of the house
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Props
Fiddle
Rake
Bag
Seaweed
Spinning Wheel
Pocket Knife
Tin Pail
Limpets
Brush
A Club
Torch Lighter
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Script Breakdowns
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NAME OF PRODUCTION: SELKIE: Furniture and Set Dressing
Scene Page ITEM LOCATION NOTES
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1 3 Rocks Downstage
1 3 Bushes Downstage
1 3 Maybe a lamppost Downstage
1 3 Rocky path Downstage
1 3 peat fireplace Inside Crofter's Cottage fireplace sound?
1 3 4-5 stools Inside Crofter's Cottage
1 3 rocking chair Inside Crofter's Cottage
1 - hanging herbs Inside Crofter's Cottage
1 - butter churner Inside Crofter's Cottage
1 - cast iron pots Inside Crofter's Cottage
1 - hanging fish above fireplace
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Set Changes
➝ Beach Shore
→ Duncan meets Margaret
➝ Crofthouse
→ Ellen Jean dances
→ Cut the webbs
➝ Beach Shore
→ Tam discovers Ellen Jean’s webbed fingers
➝ Crofthouse
→ Duncan brushes the pelt.
→ Ellen Jean finds the pelt
➝ Beach Shore
→ Margaret and Ellen Jean leave.
→ Selkies dance
➝ Year Later: Beach Shore
→ Ellen Jean comes back
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Design Language part 1
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Design Language part 2
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Conclusion