Lobby Display
Decor
Red, white, and blue banners, flags, streamers, and other party decorations hang along the top of the walls and around the center staircase. These should be generic or solid-colored, such as those pictured below, to evoke patriotic imagery without being specific to the United States or to the Confederacy. In the background, patriotic-sounding instrumental music (lots of drums and pipes) would play softly. Ideally, this would fall just short of overwhelming.
Flags
On a small table would sit handheld flags that are plain red, white, and blue that the audience could take into the performance with them (and possibly be encouraged to wave during parade scenes). On the sticks of the flags, I will either write or attach the names and years of deaths of victims of lynching, hate crimes, and vigilante justice through to the present day. The flags would be advertised to the audience as part of the Memorial Day celebrations, with information on a pamphlet about lynching and ways to learn more about its victims.
Headline Wall
A poster-collage will be posted on the front of the concessions bar. It will feature mock-newspaper headlines left blank, with photos of real headlines mixed in for inspiration. On the bar will sit a small basket of markers and “story cards” containing an issue or event from 1913 Atlanta. A standing sign on the bar would read:
“EXTRA! EXTRA!
Take a story card and try your hand at writing a gripping, selling headline below!
Need inspiration? Our wall features real headlines from the two Atlanta papers from 1913. See what they do, or try a style of your own”
