Two words: unit set....by which I mean a basic setting that gets appropriate things such as furniture and pictures/wall hangings added to it (or taken away) thus denoting the change of scene.

or

No set at all, at all (said with bad Irish accent). Forget building walls altogether, chuck naturalism out the window. Concentrate on one or two items that as soon as the audience see them...they know exactly where they are. For the TV studio it's obviously something resembling a camera, maybe a light two on a stand. For the living room it's a lounge suite. For the pub a bar (on lockable wheels for ease of set change). Depending on the time between each scene throw in a big thing to hang on the back wall; for the TV studio the TV station's logo, for the lounge a suitable picture, for the pub a beer advert.

Just thoughts, use or lose you think best

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To follow on from Rapunzel.

I have no idea about your production &/or what area space that the script dictates. 

However if you utilise the OP & PS apron stages,  then with a Tab track/drapes at half stage, this would give 2 main acting areas on stage & 2 satellites apron spaces.

Sorry mate! 

PS ( Prompt side - Stage Left]

OP (Oposite Prompt Side - Stage Right)

APRON (Down Stage of House Rag {Drape /Tab Curtain })

I don't know if this explains it, but send a PM & I'll atempt to explain further!

This may help in defining the stage areas, [ref to the 'Blueroom'], however there may be an  odd designated name or two, that the Pohms use that we don't &/or have oher local deignations :-

 http://www.blue-room.org.uk/wiki/Defining_the_Stage

  This is a prime example of where a group that Joe and I attempted to create a few years back would come in handy.

T.A.P. (Technical Advisory Pool) was a concept created by Joe to assist companies/Directors and AmDrammers with techy type problems (I.E. Lighting, Sound, Set Building/Design/Painting, precise period costume etc).

Joe and I managed to gather a few like minded souls that were willing to pass on their "expertise" in a given field to who ever was having the problem.

We were NOT a volunteer task force that would come in and do the job for you, but simply, as the name implies, an Advisory Group who could be called upon to suggest methods to assist the suffering party out of their pain.

(IF the "Techspert" was willing/able to stay on board with the production and assist "physically" with the show then that was his/her own choice.)

Unfortunately, the T.A.P. concept was very short lived for whatever reason.

A shame really, many productions in and around Perth and as far afield as Kalgoorlie have been aided by members of the T.A.P. team.

"Each morning is the dawn of a new error" - anon.