set again!!!

oh I have had a really good idea (thanks to inspiration form thomasin) urm basically if we had a main framework to the set such as the model theatre yet have bits of it that allow the audience to see through round or behind the scenery to show a kind of back stage setting which would allow for the actors to be constantly on stage and which would tie in well with those backhanded comments of the characters.it could give the impression that we are whatching a play being made (in a similar vein to Noises off) one thing I would really like to get across is the feel of old age theatre if you watched Phantom of the opera you know what I mean. I want to use some old stage technolegy and techniques "tricks of the trade"in the design such as the use of backdrops and stage hands?
what the set should be made out of is things such as canvas and old looking wood timbre frames
and use one of those white cloths as house tbs that can have a warm red shone on to it and plenty of swags and fringes and you could play the whole show like a panto when you have scene changes behind frontcloths yet because it is a gauze you could have dim lighting that would show the stage hands at work or for any short scenes you could have them behind ?

and to add to the whole we could also have those old limelight shells at the front of the stage!!