Preliminary parti sketches

The parti in plan demostrates the journey from dressing room to the wings. The dressing room is a place where the actress can be herself but the pathway to the wings involves transition into character, and is a narrower, more inward looking and lowered space. At the same time, there is a direct path to the stage representing the lover's simpler journey to watch from the wings, and it is also the direct link between reality and artifice - the transformation into character and the performance.