Concept Statement and Collage

A concept for:

East of the Sun West of the Moon

“East of the Sun West of the Moon”is a play that paints a picture of a love, jealousy, promises, expectations, etc. Its concept has been exposed to majority of the readers when they were young relating to Disney fairy-tales.

Central Idea: Love, Jealousy, Broken Promises, Needs and Wants.

Graphic Image: Victorian Era, 1888 time period. Colorful on family events, but also Dark and Gloomy.

I have quite a few ideas for East of the Sun West of the Moon. We can instantly relate to the play as a Disney story, but the story line of the play can be tweaked into many different themes. For example, comedy, serious, or thriller. This particular play allows me to approach the concept in many ways but I will collaborate two famous themes and make them one.

So right off the back we can already feel that the play reminds us of Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. So my approach to this play would be to set it in the Victorian Era. I feel like this time period would be perfect especially for a family who is not well off. Their clothes would pretty much be portrayed as rags. For the majority of the family scenes the concept of color can be more visual, in the sense more eye catching like in Cinderella. But by the same token I would really like to put the concept of “Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” in this play. I feel like once Tove is sent off with the Bear, the play takes a new turn. I feel like the imagery of the play turns dark and sort of dead. A black and gray color scheme would be perfect. I would try and design certain parts of apparel for the main characters I am not quite sure what, maybe a glove for Tove, or the prince's glove, and would customize it myself that would fit that particular time frame of the play.