In theater, you’re occasionally confronted with set designs that don’t work. Backdrops where the perspective is skewed, color choices that make you cringe, furniture that doesn’t suit the setting. Perhaps the stage itself is off: a two-hander that calls for intimacy drowns beyond a huge proscenium, or a full-cast musical suffocates within a black box. Often, something just doesn’t feel right—the theater was poorly constructed, the sight lines are terrible, the stage is raked so steeply that actors stumble. Yet now and then, the space itself feels wrong.
