The Stage

After reading through the text and discussing all of the locations I thought that the staging configuration that would be best suited to this play was thrust. I thought it would be good because everything would be performed end on so no ones back would be towards the audience. Also  because the stage would be big it would be easier to perform physical theatre and change the location. Finally the bit of the stage that comes out could be where his thought and feelings are, this small area could represent his mind and its closer to the audience which makes the audience feel closer to what he is going through and like they are discovering what emotions he is feeling with him.

However, we then got asked to perform parts of the play in a certain theatrical configuration, my group got told to use traverse. I really liked using this staging because it meant that the audience got so see things from a different perspective. It also meant lots of different things could be going on at the same time and it would be interesting to see how we could adapt the play so we were able to perform it in traverse.