Summary Of Gold For Fools Play

The scene where I would place this play would be at the Paint Creek Gold Mine in Cabin Creek, West Virginia. One of the main characters sings a song called “Gold for Fools” in the opening scene, so I decided to set the play in a gold mine to make the characters singing and emotion more relatable to the audience. It would take place during the late 1800’s because this was a major gold mining time in US history. The stage would have a large rockwall in the background to simulate the feel of being inside of a collapsed mine where rock is on all sides. The ground would have a lot of loose material like rock, dust and mining equipment. Since the play is inside of a 700 foot deep mine with little to no light the main focus of the stage will be on the actors themselves. The little light that will be provided on the stage will highlight the characters to make it feel like they are inside the mine with the actual characters of the play.
The characters are all miners so they would be dressed in typical working uniform with hardhats, overalls and heavy boots. Each character would have a sloppy hand stitched name tag on each of their work uniforms. The uniforms would be very old fashion since the play is set in the late 1800’s. The actors would be very sweaty and dirty since they are deep below the Earth’s