Leah Wilde Picture

Description:Although there were strong individual performances, this adaptation seemed to be outstripped by the brilliance of the text. The auditorium was left sparsely decorated, with the bare brick walls exposed under the glare of the house lights. This set the stage, quite literally, for a bare-bones, contemporary interpretation of the play. The costumes and props, however, remained firmly in the nineteenth century, but lacking the support of a grand period set. This was no doubt in part due, understandably, to financial constraint — period drama is costly, and well beyond the funding of most student drama. But a wholesale transplantation into the twenty-first century to accommodate this might have worked better than the resulting clash in aesthetic here, which left the drama playing out in a liminal chronological and conceptual space.

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