...I mixed things up a bit at the paper.

I am attending Chautauqua Theater Company's final production of the season tonight, a performance of William Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale." I've been looking forward to going since I designed the front page of the opening weekend's paper (above). Stacey Federoff, the theater reporter, did a phenomenal job running with a story idea proposed by CTC. The play's major plot twists apparently come off as a sort of scandalous, soap opera-esque series of events: a friendship torn apart, accusations of adultery, an illegitimate child, etc. The theater company thought it might be fun to interview the actors and actresses in character about the plot's twists and turns, creating a story as outlandish and sensational as the play itself. Think tabloid trash, Shakespeare-style.

My idea was to "expose" the seedy sister paper of The Chautauqua Daily, otherwise known as The Sicilian Post (Sicilia is the fictional setting of the play). I really loved the teaser page turn at the top, right-hand corner, but I wish I had spent more time on the rest of the page. To be honest, I kind of threw it together. Below, is the teased page with the fake stories. I thought it turned out pretty neat.