This country was built by those people who are now older, and who will be inherited by the youth, but most of the focus is on the middle age. Well, there are sort of two production extremes. The show can be set very realistically, or it can be placed in sort of an undefined limbo, or it can come down somewhere in between. There are advantages or disadvantages to both. As an instructor you mentioned that you require your design students to come up with a metaphor for their own design projects.
Bricks are the essence.
If I had a designers metaphor for the set, it would be how youth and family and people are the individual bricks that build our society. It seems that not a lot of teenagers in Fairbanks go to live theater productions. I think it is very much an escape. What I would like to emphasize is that, in contrast, live theater has a lot of energy that you just can't catch anywhere else. It's much larger than life.