Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Set Design
I chose to make the two rooms (the kitchen and bedroom) the main focus on the stage because in the play those are the rooms in which most of the story and development occurs. The rooms above are not drawn and I felt that there really was no need for them because in the play we never really entered the above apartment; we only heard noises from their tenants. However I felt that the stairs were more important because Blanche sweeps Stella away from Stanley up the stairs and much happens in relation to the stairs. Because of the relationship Stella has at the end with Eunice and because of Stella's return to Stanley, again leaving her sister after she was hit. When drawing the stage I felt that the play focused really on the one building, specifically Stella and Stanley's apartment, while there interactions were somewhat in a world of their own and they only came into contact with the out side world when it came to them. For example the scene with the boy collecting the rent and other scenes that occur not with in the house but happen just outside it. On the stage I placed the large table in the front of the room because the men playing poker has such significance to the play that it should not be hidden behind things and obscured. On the dresser I also placed the picture of Stanley that was mentioned at the beginning because I felt that it was significant that there were really no other photos.
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