The Sorcerer
Fall 2005

This was my second Sorcerer, the first being the one with Ahrimanes.  Again, my contribution centered around a very short and hellish section of the play.  This time around I provided the mechanism and design for the portal through which a character is carried off to the underworld.

This photo shows the set in its happy state.  The upstage arch (with the big "M" for Marmaduke, not Michigan) transforms.  You can see that the stage left side looks a bit skewed.  That's because it is.  That panel and the panel on the opposite side are periaktoi, which is Greek for "spinning thingamambobs used in theater stuff".  Each periaktos had a trangular footprint, much like the letters Vanna White used to turn on Wheel of Fortune before it went digital.  They were spun to show a different side when thery were hellish.

This is what the back the set looked like when converted to hell.   The lighting is extreme and my camera is crap, but this gives a decent idea of the components.  Three pairs of glowing eyes, glowing fires on the plinth, stone snake columns (on the periaktoi), and a stone gargoyle on top, flown in on cables.