Hi, I’m Wendy Dann, I’m a freelance director and I teach directing at Ithaca College. I’m responding to the image re: the ruins of the city of Corinth: the way the stones aren’t the same in each column, the deterioration and patching…
The images you’ve provided in your Place collage embody a mysterious, ominous, lonely world, with wonderful light and shadow contrasts. The Time collage provides churning, violent and yet beautiful images. All of these are a wonderful jumping off point to begin to create a physical and visual world for the play as you feel it.
Laura,
My favorite part about your project is the areas of darkness which you described in your Place mood board, and which I think you used to great effect in your final collage. I love the idea of facades–of the ornate Greek buildings which have an air of grandeur and authenticity about them, but which likewise cast long, dark shadows where people like Medea can hide. I think that idea parallels super well with the characters themselves, in that both Medea and Jason put on societal fronts when they are speaking with each other and the rest of the characters, and it is only when Medea is alone or with the Chorus that we see the true shadows within her emerge. Of course, at the end of the play when she kills her children she allows that darkness to expand and it becomes her new facade–it is scary to think that our world is constantly teetering on the edge of that kind of destruction, and that only these polished surfaces keep it at bay. The other aspect of your collage which I really loved was the transparency of the Greek frieze-like design. In your research you talk about how you want to convey the old-ness of this world, how it is slowly crumbling, and I think you achieve that feeling very successfully through the transparency. It almost feels like the entire world is fading backwards in time, which provides a fascinating contrast between an ancient backdrop and a story which could very well take place in our present day world.
Hi, I’m Wendy Dann, I’m a freelance director and I teach directing at Ithaca College. I’m responding to the image re: the ruins of the city of Corinth: the way the stones aren’t the same in each column, the deterioration and patching…
Hello Laura, I’m Mark Shanahan, a theatre director.
I’m struck by your color choices, the deep reds and contrasting blacks.
Hi Laura,
My name is Pam Berlin and I’m a director.
The images you’ve provided in your Place collage embody a mysterious, ominous, lonely world, with wonderful light and shadow contrasts. The Time collage provides churning, violent and yet beautiful images. All of these are a wonderful jumping off point to begin to create a physical and visual world for the play as you feel it.
nice work, keep it up!
BB
Laura,
My favorite part about your project is the areas of darkness which you described in your Place mood board, and which I think you used to great effect in your final collage. I love the idea of facades–of the ornate Greek buildings which have an air of grandeur and authenticity about them, but which likewise cast long, dark shadows where people like Medea can hide. I think that idea parallels super well with the characters themselves, in that both Medea and Jason put on societal fronts when they are speaking with each other and the rest of the characters, and it is only when Medea is alone or with the Chorus that we see the true shadows within her emerge. Of course, at the end of the play when she kills her children she allows that darkness to expand and it becomes her new facade–it is scary to think that our world is constantly teetering on the edge of that kind of destruction, and that only these polished surfaces keep it at bay. The other aspect of your collage which I really loved was the transparency of the Greek frieze-like design. In your research you talk about how you want to convey the old-ness of this world, how it is slowly crumbling, and I think you achieve that feeling very successfully through the transparency. It almost feels like the entire world is fading backwards in time, which provides a fascinating contrast between an ancient backdrop and a story which could very well take place in our present day world.