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Mac Young

Medium: Spacial Design

Mac Young is a Boston-based actor, director, and scenic designer, who delights in creating innovative performance spaces, especially for collaborative ensembles and devised theatre. His design work is an attempt to create a distinct visual world with very minimal means, as well as a dynamic arrangement of the available space that gives the performers rich possibilities for communicating visually, spatially, and physically. A graduate of Bennington College, he has acted, built, designed, and directed (though rarely all at once) with such Boston companies as Imaginary Beasts, Whistler in the Dark, New Rep, Huntington Theatre company, andActor’s Shakespeare Project, and is the Technical Director and resident Scenic Designer at the Vineyard Playhouse.

Elsewhere:
http://mac-young.com

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Untitled – Mac Young

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Untitled – Mac Young

I ​was responding to the sense of wide open, unrestricted spaces in a lot of the artwork, but since I couldn’t make my space any bigger, I was drawn to make a space that was about the desire for wide open space — it is somewhat closed off, with an enclosed ceiling (probably a lightweight fabric-and-framework). You’ll have to duck a little to get in, after which the ceiling slopes up drastically to a wide opening, backed with a strongly lit fabric scrim, to give the effect of the sky we’d all like to escape to every once in a while. The tea, plus the narrative in the song, made me dwell a little on the comfortable domesticity that keeps us stuck, so I arranged some comfortable, if slightly ratty furniture around the more interactive artwork — the sculpture, music, and tea. The whole configuration accidentally ended up being a little nest-like, so I put a little emphasis on that! One of my strong connections was with swallow nests, in barns but mostly dug into the sides of cliffs — in my space they became niches, (or nests,) for teacups in a range of scales. There is also an accumulation of discarded and broken cups — those swallows sure make a mess! — because it’s sometimes the accumulation from our day-to-day habits that drives us to escape.​

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