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walls painted and heavily textured with popcorn plaster and bacterial-patterned Anaglypta wallpaper. Everything is black or various shades of drab and khaki. The inky black dining table and sofa mentioned in the book also extended to include the hallway ceiling, a refl ective lake of black blood running down every corridor. Or perhaps the surface of a lake. The lighting down the hallway, inspired by the location used for the exterior of the building, reminded me of the hooded fi sh tank lighting egan described. This was also used in the girls locker room. The eff ect in both is that these spaces are underwater, with the characters drowning inside. And yet within the darkness of this pivotal set, there's a glimmer of beauty in the story. As ill's fi sh tank clouds over with plants and algae, so too does the high school fi shbowl cloud over with Post-its commemorating ill's mysterious death. This is the uglybeautiful of Dare Me that cuts to the core of egan and Gina's writing, and by transforming the themes in the book into a visual language, Production Design was used to realize a sticky, eerie, glitter-covered, noir thriller that dares the viewer to keep watching. ADG G Michael Bricker, Production Designer Benno Tutter, Andra Fay Butler, Art Directors Guinevere Cheung, Liane Prevost, Anna Lupi, Shirin Rashid, Set Designers Greg Langham, Patti Cuccia, Set Decorators F H I