Home on the Mornin' Train
Mudlark Theater is a great little theater for young people in Evanston, IL, where I have been resident designer for several years. Kids in the program act, run crew, run lights, and assist in design, and sometimes write and direct (click here for details). Home on the Mornin' Train is a play for children which draws a parallel between Jewish children hiding in an attic during WWII and runaway slave children on the underground railroad. My design is an attic structure which doubles as trees in the forest, with folk-art inspired star-patterned drops. The painting on the "wood" structure lends a lyrical, graceful through-line to the show.