Southern Methodist University · Margot Jones Theatre
Director
Marcus Pinon
Year
2017
Role
Scenic Designer
About the Design
Angled, mirrored walls and clusters of rusted oil drums define a fractured, purgatorial courtroom staged in the round, the audience pulled close on the action and the reflections multiplying the space.
Every surface was painted to read as decayed industrial concrete — peeling layers of old paint, water-stained block and a rough, broken floor — with the drums, buckets and pallets distressed across a range of rusts and faded hazard labels so no two pieces matched.
Process & Documentation
The realized, lit set is shown alongside the design package behind it: the paint elevations that set the texture and color language for each wall unit and prop, the ground plan and section for the theatre-in-the-round, a 3D overview, and construction plates for the individual platforms, poles and door units.
Process & Planning
Renderings, drafting & documentation
Stage-right unit — Walls A & B, peeling-paint texture & broken-concrete deckingStage-left unit — Walls C, D & E, with wagon deckingDetails — drum, bucket & pallet color and hazard-label variationsGround plan — theatre-in-the-roundSection — seating rakePlate — Judge’s Bench & Judas PlatformPlate — Jury, Flashback, Monologue & Lawyer platformsPlate — Door Frame & Pole 1Plate — Poles 2 & 3
In Performance
The realized work
Stage-right unit — painted wall, rusted drums & bucketsTheatre-in-the-round — the audience pulled closeThe fractured courtroom in performanceOil-drum judge’s bench & pallet platforms, dressedDistressed drums, buckets & pallets across mismatched rustsFull set — mirrored angled walls splitting the space3D overview — full configuration