This picture depicts my ideal staging. It’s rather simple, but it’s how I like it.
The idea behind a grid system was from when I was researching about those with OCD and Asperger’s and I discovered that it’s very hard for those with OCD to step on cracks, particularly those in the street. So I thought “Why not have my entire stage as a grid system with lines creating boxes and those lines having a representation of cracks in the street?”
I would make the grid system out of red electric tape for two reasons:
- Red is my characters favourite colour
- Electric tape is relatively cheap and is easy to get up off the studios floor.
I should also note that I had this idea before researching about The Curious Incident and its West End production. The West End show staging does have a kind of grid on it, however I believe this is because the staging idea behind it was that it was supposed to be inside Christopher’s mind:
A more detailed picture would show the staging is in fact similar to graph paper, there a smaller squares within the squares. This works very well for the kind of mind that Christopher has, however, in my case, I only want grids to represent cracks in the street (for now).