As a Director, How Would You Use Comedy to Indicate Your Dramatic Intentions?

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As a Director, How Would You Use Comedy to Indicate Your Dramatic Intentions?

The play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is complex on various levels. Comedy is a key level of complexity. I would focus on comedy associated with slapstick, this would aid in the development of my key dramatic intention of a victim theme. Examples of this theme can be found throughout the play but I am going to concentrate on Act 3 Scene 1. This is the scene were the mechanicals enter the wood.

I feel slapstick would help aid the other comedy elements in this scene. Bottom's misuse of language, wit and physical comedy will also feature highly in this scene.

When staging the play, I would use an apron stage; this would establish a closer actor/audience relationship. It would also allow me to use a backdrop, yet bring the action nearer to the audience. This would also help create a more intimate atmosphere and aid in creating tension.

My backdrop would be dark, using, browns, olive greens and black. I would use these colours in the form of huge tree trunks with olive green leaves; the black would fill the gaps and