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Explain how production elements revealed the director’s intentions in one production you have seen.
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Explain how production elements revealed the director's intentions in one production you have seen. I went to see 'The woman in black' at the Fortune Theatre in Covent Garden in September 2004. At the start the director's intention is to put the audience in immediate unease, even before the play has started. This is achieved by the set, as the auditorium is black, with black curtains at the sides and black gauze at the back. Even the black floor of the stage seems to have been deliberate. There is a Proscenium arch stage so the audience are all facing forward in rows, this is so all the audience can see the same and receive the same effect. The seats are quite close together and the theatre is small making it feel claustrophobic, haunting and eerie and when sitting in the dark, waiting for the woman in black to appear it...
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