Black Coffee

Overview

This project explores the process of translating a literary text into a performative spatial environment through the scenic design of Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee. Beginning with dramaturgical research, expert interviews, script analysis, and historical references, the project investigates how character, atmosphere, and narrative tension shape a theatrical stage set. Through ideation, drafting, rendering, and scale model-making, the final design reimagines Abbot’s Cleve Library from Agatha Christie's Black Coffee as a realistic 1930s English domestic setting for a hypothetical production at the Timms Centre for the Arts. Through this process, the project demonstrates how research, creative exploration, and technical considerations converge to transform a script into a cohesive, plot-driven stage environment.

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