MACHINAL
Written: Sophie Treadwell
Submitted for a competition, the brief required the space to be ‘uncomfortably, sickly sweet’, and covered in pastel tones, especially pink. The story follows a woman trapped in her roles: as a daughter, a workplace secretary, a wife, a mother. She only finds freedom when she kills her husband, but is immediately faced with the legal implications of her actions- so she is never truly free.
Sketches
I wanted to play with the idea of the soft pink room being an isolation room in an insane asylum. Women tend to be granted the insanity plea a lot more often, so I thought it would be a way to combine the softness that the brief requested with a real-life consequence to her actions. Glimpses of it can be seen throughout the show, but it is only revealed in the final scene, when the main character is imprisoned.
Inspo Collage
Scene Renders
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