The Innocents’ Crusade

Menlo School, February, 2001

The key design idea was to use 60” video monitors (TVs) and digital images (along with some basic furniture) to create the sense of scene. The projection TVs weren’t too heavy, but we rented a forklift just to be safe. I built a mini grid to hold the TVs and hung it from the lighting grid. I put 3 extra video cards into a computer and ran an extended desktop (4 screens wide) and then made a very wide PowerPoint presentation with a different set of images for each “location” in the show.

We also rolled a Volvo onstage for the last scene and then had the actors start it, put the headlights shining on the audience and then back it (upstage) off to close the show…