A Cream Cracker Under The Settee - Imagine you are directing the play for television. How would you do it and why?

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Shaban Khan                 11x4

A Cream Cracker Under The Settee

 Imagine you are directing the play for television.  How would you do it and why?

        

A cream cracker under the settee is about an old lady called Doris.  While her helper is away, Doris accidentally falls while dusting a picture of her late husband and her.  In doing so Doris injures her leg and is unable to get up.  She starts to think about her present and past and how things were when her husband was around.  Through the duration of the play, Doris character starts to change.  First from being a house-proud nagging old woman to a thoughtful and pleasant woman.

        For the setting of this play I would choose an old semi-detached house as it says in the subscript.  I would choose this house to be in a quiet area in a pleasant neighbourhood.  This is because Doris is in her 70’s and would live somewhere quiet.   The house would also have a front garden with a bush.  This is because in the play Doris speaks of her husband and her discussing weather to have a bush.  Doris says, “I didn’t even want the bush to be quite honest”.

        The inside of the house would have a lot of old pieces of furniture.  The furniture would probably be of a set because Doris’ character is quite neat and would have things that match.  The specific pieces of furniture I would have are a settee, an ewbank, a chair and a buffet.  This is because these are the main pieces of furniture mentioned in the script.  The walls would have dull wallpaper instead of paint.  Everything in the house would be quite traditional and nothing would stand out much.  Doris would also have carpet on her floor.

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For the set, the colours and lighting would be quite dark.  Browns and greys would be used for the furniture and wallpaper.  On the wallpaper I would have a traditional pattern, possibly a simple square or striped pattern.  For the lighting I would choose a brownish colour so it wouldn’t illuminate the whole room.  Brown would give an old feel to the set.

  I have made these decisions based on the script and the character of Doris.  I believe that the choices I have made are justified in Doris character, old and simple.

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