“So I live in one big weird collage,” Caroline says in Lauren Gunderson’s I and You. It’s evidenced by the play’s set that this is true. Caroline has been sick all her life and cannot go to school, so she spends much of her time in her bedroom. Because of this, her bedroom has become a reflection of her character and her life.
Caroline’s “busy, colorful but not girly” bedroom has the sloped, angular walls of a finished attic room. This was a creative decision made by the set designers in the production that we saw. The Artistic Director told us that this was symbolic of Caroline’s isolation from the rest of the world and made the distance from Caroline’s mother seem more realistic. The walls are also covered in photographs, a set detail that
Caroline’s “busy, colorful but not girly” bedroom has the sloped, angular walls of a finished attic room. This was a creative decision made by the set designers in the production that we saw. The Artistic Director told us that this was symbolic of Caroline’s isolation from the rest of the world and made the distance from Caroline’s mother seem more realistic. The walls are also covered in photographs, a set detail that