When Alycia Cantor, the director, and I started talking about the set for The Emperor's New Clothes it became apparent right from the start that it would be challenging. We had a fast paced show with 25 actors that had to play in 8 different settings. That amounted to 15 scene changes in the course of an hour without breaking rhythm. It's a children's show. you have to keep their attention at all times, you can't stop the action to move scenery on and off. There is also a point in the show where we see 4 locations at the same time. We needed a setting that could effectively play as multiple locations and be convincing in all of them. Since the castle was a central location I decided to use stone walls and arches as the base element of the set. What we ended up with is a two level set made up of stone arches at alternate angles. these formed a wall that connected to a larger unit that contained a turntable and a second level setting. Behind the arches are three triangular sets of flats on wheels. The three walls of each unit represented a different location and they were arranged in the arches to create set changes. We also added several wagons that contain other set pieces to help add depth to scenes.