Scenic and Lighting Design and Production Management by Leigh Henderson
Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre (Grand Lake, CO), June 2002
Book by Dale Wasserman
Music by Mitch Leigh
Lyrics by Joe Darion
Directed by Skelly Warren
Maximizing a very small stage, the scenery for Man of La Mancha includes climbable steel frameworks, a well that opens into the crawl space under the stage, and a ship’s ladder that descends like a drawbridge. At the climax of the show, light reveals the stone textured back wall to contain a dramatic stained glass image of a knight on horseback.
Because summer shows at Rocky Mountain Rep run in rotating repertory, the scenery is designed to be struck easily after each performance.