A lost world; a timeless, placeless, abandoned space filled with intrigue, one where you might ask yourself, ‘Am I supposed to be here?’
That’s what audiences can expect when they wander into the burlap-draped set for Henry V, which runs at the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival in Vancouver from now until Aug. 13.
The long, billowing strips of burlap have both a history and a purpose: once destined for the recycling bin, they were rescued from a Vancouver-area coffee shop and given another life.
That history is crucial to the eerie authenticity of the set, said Vancouver-based set designer Amir Ofek.
“It just immediately added a layer that I don’t think we would have achieved if
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