Brendan Ragan, Gopal Divan, Tom Foley and Summer Dawn Wallace in “Ideation” at Urbanite Theatre
So, what are we going to do with the bodies? The age-old question is thoroughly explored with mounting paranoia in Aaron Loeb’s Ideation, whose conference room setting quickly becomes a pressure cooker. For this scenic design I drew on my experiences of actual conference rooms, as well as researching how the other half conferences. The centerpiece is, of course, the table, which must be everything from a standing platform to a hiding place. I designed ours with a center console that was used to control the conference call system. Looming above the table is the whiteboard, where the plot slowly unfurls, and looming above that is the ceiling, which seems friendly enough at first. The walls of the room are plastered with motivational corporate phraseology, peppered with one or two less-than-social sayings.
Anthony Gullikson, Brendan Ragan, and Gopal Divan in Ideation.
Ideation at Urbanite Theatre. Scene and paint by Rew Tippin
A play by Aaron Loeb
Directed by Jim Sorensen
Lighting by Justin Morris
Costumes by David Walker
Stage Management by Amanda LaForge