Evanston Salt Costs Climbing
By: Will Arbery
Rogue Machine
The Matrix Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Director: Guillermo Cienfuegos
Set Designer: Mark Mendelson
Lighting Designer: Dan Weingarten
Costume Designer: Christine Cover Ferro
Prop Designer: Jenine MacDonald
Projection Design: Michelle Hanzelova-Bierbauer
The Matrix Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Director: Guillermo Cienfuegos
Set Designer: Mark Mendelson
Lighting Designer: Dan Weingarten
Costume Designer: Christine Cover Ferro
Prop Designer: Jenine MacDonald
Projection Design: Michelle Hanzelova-Bierbauer
"Mark Mendelson’s scenic design, enhanced by Michelle Hanzelova-Bierbauer’s projections, creates a wintry landscape in the middle of Los Angeles. A salt dome, a break room at the depot, the inside cab of one of the trucks and an Evanston living room make up this chilly theatrical cosmos." LA Times
"Mark Mendelson's scenic design: spectacular" On Stage Los Angeles
"...these four lost souls perform an intricate dance of denial and revelation on Mark Mendelson's deceptively naturalistic set. The wide Matrix Theatre stage becomes a purgatorial landscape where the mundane (a break room, a bedroom, a salt truck) collides with the cosmic, aided by Dan Weingarten's lighting that somehow makes you feel both freezing and feverish, often within the same scene." Stage and Cinema
"The sheer exquisiteness of the execution by the creative team at Rogue Machine in this production must be noted. There is brilliance and creativity in the scenic design by Mark Mendelson, in a snowy set that captures the arctic chill so well that I felt the fictional brutal cold throughout the entire play. The truck is particularly imaginative." Broadwayworld.com
"The staging works well, with scenic designer Mark Mendelson effectively utilizing the wide, shallow stage to serve each element in the story...most impressively, the front of the garage where the vehicles are kept, whose door rumbles ominously open (sound by Christopher Moscatiello) to reveal Basil and Peter perched on the front seat of their creaky, cranky truck..." Stage Raw
"Mark Mendelson's scenic design: spectacular" On Stage Los Angeles
"...these four lost souls perform an intricate dance of denial and revelation on Mark Mendelson's deceptively naturalistic set. The wide Matrix Theatre stage becomes a purgatorial landscape where the mundane (a break room, a bedroom, a salt truck) collides with the cosmic, aided by Dan Weingarten's lighting that somehow makes you feel both freezing and feverish, often within the same scene." Stage and Cinema
"The sheer exquisiteness of the execution by the creative team at Rogue Machine in this production must be noted. There is brilliance and creativity in the scenic design by Mark Mendelson, in a snowy set that captures the arctic chill so well that I felt the fictional brutal cold throughout the entire play. The truck is particularly imaginative." Broadwayworld.com
"The staging works well, with scenic designer Mark Mendelson effectively utilizing the wide, shallow stage to serve each element in the story...most impressively, the front of the garage where the vehicles are kept, whose door rumbles ominously open (sound by Christopher Moscatiello) to reveal Basil and Peter perched on the front seat of their creaky, cranky truck..." Stage Raw