In an era of minimalist sets (often no more that a few chairs and props) Letters From the Front utilizes a richly detailed, Broadway-style set that is referred to as the third character in our play because it emerses our audiences in the WWII home front. Comments often heard from our audiences range from: “I felt like I was a fly on Katharine’s wall,” to “It was so realistic, I forgot I was watching a play.”

The new set is ingeniously designed to collapse into units small enough to fit through a normal doorway. Unlike previous sets constructed from standard theatrical flats and risers that were heavy, cumbersome, and labor intensive to assemble and strike, every element of the new set is on casters and thus requires no lifting or carrying. It makes for significantly faster and safer load-ins and load-outs. It is also designed to contract or expand to fit a wide variety of venues.