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"When audiences walk into The Yard at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, they are immediately transported to a tennis match. Scenic designer Wilson Chin completely transforms the space– with audience stands on either side of the stage and a tennis court at the center. The specificity is stunning, and is only heightened by lighting designer Jen Schriever’s collaboration."– Lauren Katz, Third Coast Review
"Wilson Chin’s elegant set design is a promising start: it’s a stripped down version of a tennis court with the net facing the audience, against a backdrop of lights, each one evoking the famous Wimbledon Rosewater Dish (the trophy that King would hoist four times), and dominated by a giant screen displaying a vintage Wimbledon scoreboard. Through the course of the play, this screen is raised and lowered, and the net rotated, creating different settings and locales for the action. In combination with Jen Schriever’s stellar lighting design, the overall effect is remarkable."– C.J. Fernandez, Stage and Cinema
"It all plays out appropriately on Wilson Chin’s stylized tennis court set with bleacher-like seating for the company on either side with an ingeniously incorporated turntable center court. The stage is framed with a backdrop of forty-five Wimbledon-like trophy lights serving many scenic purposes and modular screens with artfully produced projections by David Bengali intermingled with live video segments. Together with Linda Cho’s versatile costumes and the fine work of movement director Steph Paul, the entire production is a visual feast."– Ed Tracy, Picks in Six
