Set Design, Props and Costume Design
Fair Play by Ella Road
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Director: Kristina Brändén Whitaker
Assistant director: Jelena Boric
Cast: Lotti Brogan and Susan Akintomide
Set Design: Diblik Rabia Leon
Light Design: Max Mittle
Sound design: Guest Platform
Costume and Props Design: Diblik Rabia Leon
Stage Manager: Viktoria Tilly
Technicians: Diblik Rabia Leon, Sofie Arnkil
Trailer: Lina Ikse
Project description: Fair Play is the intimate story of the friendship between Ann and Sophie, a pair of talented teenage runners who struggle with the narrow-minded rules of elite sport. Both qualify for major competitions, where they meet in training and build a good friendship while they enjoy chating and bursting into feverish laughter, laughing at boys and dreaming of sponsorships.
Everything changes until Ann is disqualified for having tested high in testosterone, which by rule prevents her from competing. However, these results assign her the label of "abnormal", and place her in a frustrating and outrageous position for her person.
The work shows us the ignorance and invasiveness of the way elite sport approaches gender, with results that disproportionately affect women.
Fair Play paints a rich, three-dimensional picture of the banal and senseless definitions that are placed on women not only on the track, but within a society that has prejudice for everything.
Work description: Since the story took place between exhaustive training and competitions, I wanted to create an immersive experience in which the audience felt like they were on an athletics track, so the set design was based on the basic principles of round theatre, where audience sat around the athletics track in the center.
I also created green spaces where other actions took place, such as training, talks, and other sites.
I made the set design based on theatre in the round, for creating an immersive experience.
Trailer Fair Play: https://youtu.be/67cX87EQfhY?si=Fw45uEIn_Vf0lknH
More information: https://www.gest.se/fair-play
Inspiration, Sketches & Process
Set Design
