On the Verge

"Ladies, shall we whack the bush?" is a line repeated over and over throughout the play On the Verge.  And it’s what leads into my idea for the poster. My vision for the poster would be a thick jungle with a light watermark of a clock on it.  I would want it to not be very obvious that there is a clock involved.  The poster should suggest a journey or an adventure, not giving away the exciting twist of time travel, but merely hinting at it.  Maybe there would be a few of the objects that we see come up in the play scattered around, but I’m not sure about that part.  It’s hard to imagine it in my head.  I feel like this idea is not super crazy or innovative, but it is very fitting.  "Ladies, shall we whack the bush?" is the line I would want to use for the tag line.  It conveys that same idea of the jungle and adventuring, but also holds more weight to it than that.  These women have an incredible persistence and determination for exploring.  The desire to discover new places is the main driving force through this play.  They are not only discovering new places as in physical places, but also making discoveries about new places in time.  And they are not only whacking through trees, but whacking through confusion of new objects and phrases that they have never heard.  It paints a mental image of a thick and difficult web of something that they must plow through to find their way.  This is why I chose the image of the jungle to use for the poster.  It is the physical image of the words of my tag line.  I didn’t want to use the typical pictures of maps and adventurous looking women with umbrellas.  I wanted it to have a bit more ambiguity in it.  It leaves people who see it wondering what exactly it suggests.