As a director outline some of your ideas for a production of 3 sisters.

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Simon Oxberry

As a director outline some of your ideas for a production of 3 sisters

3 sisters is a play revolved around hopes, dreams and ambitions. Some of them come true others work out differently for each of the characters in the play. As a director for this play I would try and make every point made by Chekhov stand out, to be spelt out for the audience, and over-exaggerate the play to some degree. I would like the play to be darker than most productions of the play, as I said spell everything out, the mood of the house changes so, through the play the lighting darkens to show state and mood of things getting worse until finally at the end of the play the scene is set in a bright garden outside of the house. Also through out the play the surroundings enclose on the characters, to show their problems not going away but growing out of proportion. I could either show this by bringing the whole set and scenery closer to the characters, or I could bring the main props in closer, for example I could bring the pillars in closer or the clock. I was thinking along the lines of not only showing the room closing in, I could use echo’s slightly to show their isolation to some degree.

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    For the set I would like it on a high semi circular stage with the crowd half surrounding it. The basic layout of the will be a large old room decorated with expensive paintings and useless ornaments, these will decrease as the play progresses showing money problems and 3 large marble columns at the rear of the stage. In front of the middle column will be a large clock. To the left of the stage will be the window, the top half is a French window whereas the bottom part is not so as which to enable the ...

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