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Bristol Old Vic Theatre School; The murder in the red barn.
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Bristol Old Vic Theatre School; The murder in the red barn, Friday 28th November. We have been studying Maria Marten two terms before this performance, so we all knew the play inside out. What we were expecting to see was an eccentric Victorian melodrama with all its over-the-top exaggerated clichés and all the stereotypical characters (villain, hero, heroine etc), and in addition, some pantomime style songs to compliment and break up the scenes. My initial thoughts of the stage and auditorium were of its size. It was a quaint theatre with no reserved seating. The theatre was a typical black box studio theatre with no fly space. To create an illusion of a traditional Victorian theatre they had built a small proscenium arch stage with a thrust. This can be seen in the sketch on the last page of the review. The set was not a naturalistic one, in that painted...
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