J. William Davis - THEATRICS - Tales of Aviation Heroes

Model - inside the flat

Model - kids find birdcage

Model - boys on rooftop

Preliminary Costumes

Costume for Carter

Costume for Shirley

Costume for Belinda

Precedents

Costume for Lark

Costume for Steady

Plans + Sections

Furniture and props

Setting
sketch

J.Parkes -

The Soho Theatre, London

Director: Elly Green

This new play is set in 1989 on the roof of a tower block in Hackney on the day prior to demolition. Five young teens scavenge the flats for furniture. In one flat they discover a mummified dead baby, changing their game playing into something more serious.

Shape was given to this work through working with the playwright and director.

The setting evokes the derelict concrete world of the roof as a plane floating in the sky. The flat's clutter mimics the world the kids create on the roof.

The clothes are true to the youth culture street fashion of the period. The colour of the clothing reflects the blue of the sky.

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Lark, Steady's younger brother, wears a yellow Tottenham football goalie's shirt, jeans, an oversized hand-me-down puffa jacket and a baseball cap.

Steady tries to emulate Carter's look, although not successfully, by wearing jeans - which are too new - and a t-shirt. He also wears a dark denim jacket.

Belinda tries to portray herself as the tough girl in her Dr. Martens boots, black tights, clingy dress and lumberjack shirt.

Shirley in jeans and tight shirt and shell-suit jacket, exhibits her budding sexuality.

Steady, the leader of the group of youths, is dressed in torn jeans, a Nirvana t-shirt with a baby's image, and a hooded sweatshirt and trainers.

Preliminary costume sketches for Carter, Steady, Shirley, Belinda and Lark.

Carter, Lark and Steady.

Carter, Lark and Steady are on the roof of the towerblock discussing their hunt for valuable things in the flats below.

The kids begin to rummage thorough the flat; Shirley discovers an old birdcage.

Model - the five adolescents enter an unoccupied flat in the towerblock.

Technical drawing of ground plan and section, showing raked stage.

Inspirational precedents for the tower block's roof and the interior of the flat.

Technical drawing of furniture and props with precedent photos.

Preliminary sketch for the set design - floating roof plane, with scattered furniture, plunging through abstracted window framing the sky.

Tales of Aviation Heroes

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