It’s just backwards. So house left and right are when you’re looking onto the stage from the audience, and stage left and right are when you’re an actor looking out. The script called for stage directions, so I drafted one way, but the director didn’t take the “stage” portion into account and so he blocked out the entire show ‘backwards’
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well that’s a great way to make a mistake 
well, when standing on the scene, facing the public, the garden is on your right. then we have the same 15 section division as you show.
it’s like starboard / port, it’s a good system because it doesn’t depend on you but on the boat (or here, the scene)
in cities with a strong theatre culture, you’ll often find a “côté cour” or “côté jardin” bar or restaurant (sometimes both) nearby
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I wish we were this efficient.
I filmed the Skp process from that last set. It’s a 40 minute video so it’s not really for watching unless someone has a desire to learn how someone else (me) struggles through a theatre set design in SketchUp. The question comes up every once in a while on here.
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I wasn’t sure. But then I heard the flute. Now I’m watching for sure.
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Thanks for that. I loved watching your process, especially the freedom do be creative and and not so precise, which is always a burden on my work process. Yes, something is seriously wrong with that desk.
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The fabric is a sheer black tulle (700 yards/640 meters) and while it looks pretty creepy and good in person, the cameras do not pick it up well at all under the stage lights.
This is the black widow murder mystery.
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Could be a lost in translation thing in the same way that I’m not sure this is quite what they wanted to say
Perhaps something more along the lines of ‘the flamboyantly dressed man disappeared under cover of a pyrotechnic effect.’
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All jokes aside, you are really making me miss my theatre days, may have to get involved again. Mind you the idea of actually designing a set before randomly creating it out of my mind is a little scary.
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This cra-cked me up, I live for obscure, inscrutable, impractical director notes, it’s priceless scenic designer comedy. 
Can you translate?
Special note: this director and I get along better than any other director I’ve ever worked with in the last 20 years. (and we have almost been working together for that long)
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‘Pre-Poofed Poofs” are hard to find.
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It would be fun to see the finished set. The “floating” platforms on SR and SL and the lack of a landing up center would raise some questions. It’s been many, many years since I did a set design and it’s really great to see this process. At my age, I would need multiple hand rails and lots of time to climb the steps. Best wishes to you.
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This one has been very hard to get good photos of because of how dark the actual set construction was supposed to be, but here’s some mild attempts. This show closes in two days and the next one is a box set, so more walls and trim and doors.
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Very cool like your other work.
A nautical theme?
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