This design was heavily inspired by German Expressionism and Tim Burton's film BeetleJuice. Coward's Blithe Spirit is a 1940s farce-ghost story. In the design creation I explored comedy and horror; films around death that are funny. BeetleJuice sits snuggly inside this category, yet it is visually too grotesque for a Coward production. Therefore I discovered what would happen if BeetleJuice went to finishing school...? As the show progresses the curtains raise revealing a bizarre room which gradually falls apart due to the ghosts: shelves on the book case break, books fly off their shelves, the piano crashes into the floor, the chandelier swings, the carpet gets sucked into the stairs, the french doors open and close alone, the grandfather clock tilts and chimes, the gramophone plays on high speed, and finally the walls raise off the ground, tilt and sway.

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Scenic and Props Designer, 2014

(also Scenic Artist)

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- Written by Noel Coward

- Directed by Paul T. Mitri

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