Cathy was an ever evolving show, and it is most obvious in how different the set was from the very first competition to the last. The artistic goal of the set was to highlight the disarray in Cathy's life. To highlight and mirror the transient nature of living on the streets and getting by with only what you can scrounge up. The functional goal (which took priority due to the competition aspect of one act) was falling in line with the very specific rules of UIL One Act Play. In comes the unit set. Taking inspiration from the concepts of eviction and the cube design of the unit set, the first draft was essentially a jungle of boxes. This mirrored the sight of a person seeing all their belonging being forcibly thrown out of their home. This was not a look that judges were fond of. The set was initially too interpretive, heavily contrasting the intense and beautiful realism of our actors. I sat down with my director to redesign, and that is when we came up with the latest design of the show. It would have more structure. Most of the unit set was used to create a center platform in which the most pivotal parts of the show would take place. The set would still have aspects of the previous one with cardboard boxes strategically littered in the background so that when hit at the correct angle, would crate a city skyline to fill up the stage more effectively. Most thematically, the set would begin all in the center platform when Cathy has a sense of "control". But after she finds out she is going to be homeless, we staged transitional "eviction scene" in which the ensemble would grab all of Cathy's belongings and displace them through out the rest of the set. The most important task I was responsible for was developing and coordinating the plan for setup, strike, load in, and load out. We are only allowed 7 minutes to set up and strike the set so coordination was essential. All set pieces that we brought were color coordinated to specific sections of the stage and assigned to a specific person. A number that corresponded to each piece's "wave" was also attached.