Woman in Black

The Woman in Black
The form is open for the auditory modality to see before the
play starts and is range out as the stage in a small theatre, a basketful
for props, two chairs, a rack of costumes and buckets catching water
from a leaky roof. The most important part of the set though was the
gauze bandage at the back of the stage separating a make out scene behind and
snap offing it hen needed victimisation lighting. This combination of props an
structure conveys the location strongly to the auditory sense without being
so defined that it is not possible to change over the background.

The play started in the theatre depicted on the stage and almost
immediately the humour of the actor trying to instill a little panache
in Mr Kippss interpret of his memoirs. Any tension or apprehension the
audience hear with regards to the plays reputation as a horror
dissipated this I feel lulled the audience into a false sense of
guarantor which made shocks later in the play a potentiometer more aftermathive. The
most important element of the play I feel was the lighting without a
doubt, spotlights were used to great effect and to draw attention to
subtler facial expressions something which cannot be used so much in
theatre acting.



Also it allowed the gauze to be rendered opaque or see
through at the shoot of a switch which enabled the stage hands to
change set whilst the play continued allowing for swift changes as if
actually by magic. Also the eerie scenes played out behind the gauze
were added to by the slightly murky look that was achieved, another
in force(p) use of lighting was the flannel mullein when Kipps is searching the
house for the trace and when he sits down shines the beam above and
behind him to reveal the woman in black standing behind him, the torch
is clearly specially narrow beamed so that only a small area is
visible and the audience feels the tension as they realise that the
woman in black is lurking in the shadows and although the incite to warn
him. The one problem was...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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