FIFTH PLANET
By David Auburn
Directed by Ann Noling
Set Designer: Jamie Phanekham
Lighting Designer: Paul Vaillancourt
Sound Designer: Kyle Fosse
Photos by Taylor Edelle Stuart & Daniel Rader
Williamstown Theatre Festival, PTP
A professional astronomer and an amateur astronomer hazard a friendship and learn more about Jupiter than they bargained for.
Characters’ outfits help describe the complexity of their relationship. The costumes convey characters’ different personalities and their social backgrounds. Casual nature of their encounters sets the mood in their clothing. Costume changes create different looks to communicate different seasons and the passage of time, while the two friend astronomers observe the sky. The story is set in the 90’s.