Moving on from my initial design I've carried on with keeping the stairs in a central position; these will be a fixed piece throughout the whole of the production so they need to be easily adaptable to each scene, I struggled with ways of how I was going to achieve this and through looking at the works of Peter Greenaway and Quills the way I will get around this is not through set changes but through the use and change of colour to compliment the mood of the scene.
The backdrop I see as being like drapes in a plain colour which can then change between the scenes using the lighting to alter colour and mood. (Ashputtels house - drapes in a grey; Prince's Castle - drapes in red and gold.)
