“We were all perplexed by the script because it goes so many places so quickly,” noted John Lee Beatty, set designer for The Snow Geese on Broadway. “Dan Sullivan, the director, said we couldn’t do the big outdoor scene where they’re shooting geese in the marsh as a drop or anything like that. He felt that just wasn’t going to work for him, so I started that way. The backstage is very small, so I had to be very quick on my toes to figure out a scenic scheme that could get enough scenery on and off. That’s how I came up with the double jackknife instead of a revolve, because I wanted to have the illusion of an open stage for the shooting scene. I worked backwards in design. It was quite a challenge in that small space.”
—Bryan Reesman, from “Inside Theatre,” PLSN, Jan. 2014
