The Last of the Pelican Daughters

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Role

SET DESIGNER

Company

UBC THEATRE AND FILM DEPARTMENT

Date

MARCH, 2025

Venue

FREDERIC WOOD THEATRE – UBC

Location

VANCOUVER, CA

Concept

A dollhouse-inspired set that reflects a deconstruction of the notions of “Family” and “Home”. It portrays the living memory of a Mother through disclosures, unfolding spaces and unsettled objects. It is a timeline portrait of sisterhood, conflicts, inheritance, loss and memory. All of it within an eclectic maximalist world.

DECONSTRUCTION
DISCLOSURE
ECLECTIC MAXIMALISM
LIVING MEMORIES
FAMILY BONDS

DECONSTRUCTION / DISCLOSURE / ECLECTIC MAXIMALISM / LIVING MEMORIES / FAMILY BONDS

DECONSTRUCTION / DISCLOSURE / ECLECTIC MAXIMALISM / LIVING MEMORIES / FAMILY BONDS

Breakdown

SPACES
0

[ LIVING ROOM / DINING ROOM / GARDEN / HALLWAY / SECRET ROOM ]

CHAPTERS
0

[ INCLUDING A PROLOGUE SCENE]

SET
0

[ AN UNFOLDING WORLD ]

Sketches

Concept sketch

Concept sketch - World’s spaces and co-relations

Concept Sketch - Texture and Colour

Models

Scenic unfolding gestures - Rough Model

Scenic unfolding gestures - Rough Model

Concept Testing - Digital White Model

Detail design in process - Rough Colour Digital Model

Final Design - Hidden room unfolded

Show

Prologue: Origin Stories
On Stage:
Alivia Sabatino
Raven Mutford
Isabella Buonaiuto

Chapter 2: Together
On Stage:
Kyle Deslippe
Alivia Sabatino
Isabella Buonaiuto
Raven Mutford
Somnus
Lauren Ohh

Chapter 6: In the Dead of the Night
On Stage:
Kyle Deslippe
Alivia Sabatino

credits

DIRECTOR
FAY NASS
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
CHRISTOPHER LAM
SCENIC DESIGNER
ANA CAMACHO
ASSISTANT SCENIC DESIGNER
JULES SASSI
LIGHTING DESIGNER
SAM CHENG
SOUND DESIGNER
VINCIE LIN
COSTUME DESIGNER
ELLY ICH
STAGE MANAGER
HOLLY THEOBALD
PHOTOGRAPHY
JAVIER R. SOTRES
CAST
CASSANDRA TSAW
RAVEN MUTFORD
ISABELA BUONAIUTO
LAUREN OHH
KYLE DESLIPPE
ALIVIA SABATINO
MATTHEW JIN
FIONA SILVIS
SOMNUS