Design #1:

This set is located in the black box with the audience sitting in the front area of the room. The design revolves around surrounding the actor being trapped in an area that is shaped like sound waves like in a jail cell. There is a key leading out of this cage that the actor can use to open to “the real world” to more loud sounds that the actor has to hear. The speaker will be repeating what the actor is saying and this could be pre-recorded but it makes the audience think that it is repeating after the actor. This is because people who suffer from acousticophobia are scared of their own voice when they speak and in their heads as well. This could be that this is the mental state in the actor’s mind is stressed out and the actor is panicking under such loud noises. The items that are within the glass containers will randomly start playing loud sounds so that the actor finds a way to stop it through the buttons. But the sounds can progressively get worse and start playing at the same time which activates the phobia.

Design #2:

This set is located on a thrust stage with the audience sitting on the two sides and front area of the theatre. The design includes various dangling items like the music note swing and the ladder on the thrust. Each block holds an item that creates a sound like the alarm clock, radio, speaker, and microphone, and the speaker in the corner also plays sudden loud noises that will trigger the actors’ acousticophobia. The cyclorama in the back is of a TV white noise image that could be colorful because they could be trapped inside a TV and the actor cannot find his way out. The only way leading out is the dangling ladders that are shaped like sound waves that will produce sound when you climb on them. The actor has to overcome their fear to escape this place up the ladders out of the TV.