Cabaret

CABARET

This project, the last of the 2009-2010 school year, pushed my limits into new discoveries, namely wire mesh (a pain) and chicken wire (a godsend!). The set is designed for USU's Morgan Theater, a thrust stage that always presents a creative challenge for student and professor alike to design in. Walkways lead up to the voms and reach out over the fourth row in the audience for dance numbers for a more "in your face" cabaret experience. The concept for this set is for everything to have an industrial feel, then gradually evolve into a concentration camp at the end. Tables come out in the moat, giving the audience more of a feeling of being in a club, I would have it extend into the rest of the house, with the ushers dressed cabaret style. There are rollaway stairs and platforms that can be arranged in various positions for different scenes. One of my main goals is to present the director, choreographer, etc. with an array of creative choices to spring ideas from.

Macbeth

Tartuffe set design, my first.

This is my first costume design, entitled Alice in Wonderland (Without Insurance). Here is the Mock Turtle Nurse.

Here is the Catepillar Ph.D. who visits Alice in the E.R., not too invested in her care.

This is Alice's surgeon, the Mad Hatter, who really loves his job and Alice is next on his party list.

The primary villain is none other than the hospital business rep, the Queen of Hearts. She is after our uninsured Alice...heads are going to roll..."Off with her health care!"

This is the intern Griffin to the Queen of Hearts. He brings Alice to the Queen's review board to bring her case into question.

Have no fear, Alice, your White Rabbit injury attorney has finally arrived...late, as usual. I made this lawyer a legal fee pirate going after the Almighty Golden Carrot; he rides a Harley, chases ambulances across town, perhaps that's how Alice got in that car wreck in the first place...

This is my first costume design, entitled Alice in Wonderland (Without Insurance). My professor wasn't too sure what assign me and so he directed me to try a Wonderland concept. This version, inspired by our current healthcare issues, doesn't have an actual script, yet.
Here is Alice, a young woman in her 20's who gets into a wreck and is hospitalized, soon thereafter it is learned she has no coverage, and so the adventure through our current American health care system begins. I wanted Alice to take on a new persona, not the cutesy and precocious icon we all know. She's the typical, cutesy, Wonderbread Alice. She's a struggling college student instead of a prim, fanciful, little girl. She does maintain the blue, but aside from her thin gown is naked to this strange world she has wound up in.

Introductions

Hello one and all, I'm Rufus ZaeJoDaeus, currently a student at Utah State University, a Set and Costume Design Major. Drawing, painting, sculpting, telling stories through the arts is one of my greatest passions. Please enjoy and feel free to comment on this evolving portfolio.