Dream And Reality On A Real Stage Analysis
An Analysis on the Switch of
Dream and Reality on a Real Stage
What and how should be displayed on the stage with the personal style is a question I have been thinking about all the time. There are many forms of modern drama. Referencing and blending can make me continuously learn the stage knowledge. However, how to combine the complicated stage settings and lighting effects within the script is a question that every author needs to think.
In 1894, known as “The New Art” can “calls for a theatre that offers simultaneously a 'mixture of the unconscious and conscious'” (Strindberg, 1975). When the audience is appreciating a play, the first thing that catch their attention is the visual effect: the space settings for the entire stage, …show more content…
In order to show the dream play a dominate role in the play, the dream performance part is set on the main stage, while the reality part is set on the secondary stage. The purpose for this setting is to blur the boundary between dream and reality on the one hand and, on the other hand, it is the mentality of the role of escapism (desire to live in dream rather than in reality). In addition, a staircase is placed between these two stages as a connection between them. There are two layers of meaning for the setting of stairs. The first is to set a space free between the dream and the reality. That is to say, the space does not belong to ontologies of characters but to the spiritual level. The purpose is to give characters an inner monologue or to connect the dream and the reality as a bridge; the second is to facilitate actors in the process of switching the scene as they move. And this place can also be used as a scene without specific location information, especially when characters start to switch dreams and reality, the staircase is the way to communicate. This inspiration for this design comes from Gordon Craig's example when he used the stairs as a neutralization element to show the upper class and lower class on the stage. Separating the palaces and the slum from "put into the scene a neutral spot where the two classes always met ... as the magic spot where the whole world meets practically in harmony” (Craig,
Dream and Reality on a Real Stage
What and how should be displayed on the stage with the personal style is a question I have been thinking about all the time. There are many forms of modern drama. Referencing and blending can make me continuously learn the stage knowledge. However, how to combine the complicated stage settings and lighting effects within the script is a question that every author needs to think.
In 1894, known as “The New Art” can “calls for a theatre that offers simultaneously a 'mixture of the unconscious and conscious'” (Strindberg, 1975). When the audience is appreciating a play, the first thing that catch their attention is the visual effect: the space settings for the entire stage, …show more content…
In order to show the dream play a dominate role in the play, the dream performance part is set on the main stage, while the reality part is set on the secondary stage. The purpose for this setting is to blur the boundary between dream and reality on the one hand and, on the other hand, it is the mentality of the role of escapism (desire to live in dream rather than in reality). In addition, a staircase is placed between these two stages as a connection between them. There are two layers of meaning for the setting of stairs. The first is to set a space free between the dream and the reality. That is to say, the space does not belong to ontologies of characters but to the spiritual level. The purpose is to give characters an inner monologue or to connect the dream and the reality as a bridge; the second is to facilitate actors in the process of switching the scene as they move. And this place can also be used as a scene without specific location information, especially when characters start to switch dreams and reality, the staircase is the way to communicate. This inspiration for this design comes from Gordon Craig's example when he used the stairs as a neutralization element to show the upper class and lower class on the stage. Separating the palaces and the slum from "put into the scene a neutral spot where the two classes always met ... as the magic spot where the whole world meets practically in harmony” (Craig,