Lighting, Scenic and Prop Design
To Pieces
Presented by Who Me? Theatre at the Montreal Fringe Festival
June 4-15, 2025
A small-town bar, an old television, ex-lovers, crossed electrical signals. Carrie and Stace are trapped in a charged chance encounter, circling their past and revealing their present. This play is a love letter to the women who spit, smoke, drink, love and leave it all on the table.
Team
Text by Lumi Mitton
Directed by Louna Fezoui
Starring Callie Jean & Izzy Walker-Sherman
Stage Management by Vanessa Marion
Intimacy Direction by Jade Le Pape
Photography by Estora Wyn Marshall
Scenography and Properties by Jen Jack
Lighting Design by Jen Jack and Vanessa Marion
Costume Design and Properties by Lea Fournier
Video Design by Charlie Galea McClure
Text by Lumi Mitton
Directed by Louna Fezoui
Starring Callie Jean & Izzy Walker-Sherman
Stage Management by Vanessa Marion
Intimacy Direction by Jade Le Pape
Photography by Estora Wyn Marshall
Bar Visual Research: divey and wood paneled, reminiscent of small town watering hole
Process
Collage of Moments: Each image represents a discrete moment in the text, which ebb between the reality of a late night in a small town Canadian bar and the twisted innerworkings of the characters’ psyches.
Lighting Design: My desire was to have the stage bathed in warm light when the characters were in reality and in cool light when reality slipped.
Set Building
Given the quick turnover and limited storage space for the Fringe, I opted to design a bar that folds in on itself. The outer walls of the bar fold in, the the top can be removed, and the whole unit rolls on casters. The majority of the materials were re-used, including the linoleum bar-top and bar stools.
Prop Fabrication
At a pivotal moment in the play, Carrie and Stace share in some glasses of bourbon. Through my research, I learned that there are no maritime Canadian bourbon manufacturers. Given the play’s vague geography in small town eastern Canada, I opted to design my own bourbon brand. The name, Oak Point comes from the location of a lighthouse located near the hometown of the playwright.
