The set of a play is more than just the background for the action.  In a black-box space like ours with no curtain, it's the first thing that an audience member knows about the play; it sets the tone and can lay down thematic foundations for the production.  Let's take a deep dive into what the Sister Cities set is telling us.  (SPOILERS ahead on a significant plot point.)

Sister Cities is a period piece, in that it's set in a specific year: 2006. For most of the audience, that's well within living memory, and that creates a challenge: how do you set the scene to cleanly distinguish the "then" from the "now", when the two may well blur together in people's minds?

We've switched up our annual holiday season fundraiser this year: from now until December 31st, donate $30 to KWLT and receive a set of blank greeting cards with artwork by local print artist Laura Perrin!