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The Hetero Home: The Scenic Design of "Straight White Men" For the Royall Tyler Theatre
Martine, Isabel M.
Martine, Isabel M.
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The play Straight White Men by Young Jean Lee emphasizes challenges to established suburban norms of straight white masculinity, what it means to be a family, and how it feels to be home for the holidays. In my scenic design for the Royall Tyler Theatre’s production in 2022, I used personal experience as a middle-class, queer white woman to shape the familiar suburban living room into a simulated, queered display to explore empathizing with the straight white male characters of the show, and those who the audience may know in real life. My fellow collaborators and I had the opportunity to explore identity and suburbia, build a space which is often exclusionary and imbue it with care, queerness, and empathy. Through the construction of a heterosexual home, I discovered things about scenic design, myself as an artist, and the importance of representation in cultivating healthy creative spaces for non-straight, non-white, and/or non-men.
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2023-01-01
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