I feel like we talked a lot about the message of the play and what we liked and disliked about it so I'm going to talk about the play from a technical and performance aspect.
I would be really eager to see a performance of this. I like that there are two actual actors on stage, but I really liked what we talked about with the idea of shadows. I also thought it would be interesting to maybe just do voiceovers and in the beginning of the scene and the voices of Maggie and Hetty are at a whisper and throughout the play they get louder and louder and when they disappear it would be interesting to, maybe at that point, see them onstage and then we finally see the womens' "true selves". Although I'm not sure if the audience would understand that these two new actors on stage were the voices they were hearing earlier, but it could be a cool thing to try.
The way I was just thinking about the staging for that, it almost seems like a horror film. I imagine the suspense building and building as the voices grow louder. Then all of a sudden, from the shadows, come the snarling visages of Maggie and Hetty. I imagine them green and hunched, drooling and clawing at the air. Too much?
ReplyDeleteNot too much at all, love it haha.
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