Romeo and Juliet Coursework Assignment: Choose one scene and show how you would design and direct it in order to create a particular interpretation of the script.

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Romeo and Juliet Coursework Assignment: Choose one scene and show how you would design and direct it in order to create a particular interpretation of the script.

A director's role in producing a play is much more than telling the actors where to stand or what to say. It is to enable the actors to make a particular interpretation of the text clear to the audience. To do this a director has a number of dramatic tools at his or her disposal, such as the actors' body language, facial expressions, the position of actors in relation to each other, the way they actually deliver the lines. All of these convey emotions and meanings beyond the words on the page. They bring the words on the page alive to the audience. Similarly, a director can use set design, lighting and costume to signify a range of ideas and emotions which lie beneath the written language.

I have chosen to direct Act 3 Scene 1 as this is arguably the most important scene in the play. In this scene we lose two major characters, when Tybalt slays Mercutio and Romeo kills Tybalt. We also become aware of the contrast between