There are many places where plays can take place. Sometimes people do Theater in the round, black box theater, street theater, regular theater, theater in the park....etc.
Theater is really all around you - as is performance. You play a character everyday in a certain setting. Your character changes when your setting does - at least mine does. I'm a completely different person at home than I am at school.
I think that setting makes the play - what do you think? Do you pay attention to setting when you watch a play? What does it do for you?
The setting helps set the mood of the scene to me
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you the setting sets the mood for me also. I like to take in the setting before I pay attention to my characters so that way I am in the right frame of mood to know how they are trying to portray the emotions of their character.
DeleteSetting for a play definitely sets the mood and lets you travel along with the characters to get the full experience of the play. We did the Sound of Music in High School and it was challenging to make the stage the house and then transform it to a mountain during the play. But, I know it is important to set the scene so you can fully be in character and in the moment.
ReplyDeleteThe setting is really important to any play. Without the setting no one would be able to really put in to perspective what is going on and the actors/actress would not know how to really act. The setting also allows the audience to have a good visiual of what time frame this play was supposed to be set in which also helps set the mood and the expectation of the characters.
ReplyDeleteI would totally agree. The audience would be totally lost without the setting of the play.
DeleteWhen I watch a play I don't care about the setting I focus on the actors themselves.
ReplyDeleteReally? I mean really sometimes there are some pretty dull scenes in stuff so its nice to have something nice to look at until things start picking up.
DeleteHonestly the only play that I ever saw was phantom of the opera which the scene really helped because guess what you got real explosions on stage! They had these phosphorus explosives that would go off any time the phantom would appear and disappear so that you would never see where the phantom went!! (The phosphorus was really effective because the room was pitch black except for the stage so you would be blinded for a few seconds!) Anyway for that experience the scene made the show! So yeah after seeing this I would say that the scene is not everything but guess what if helps so much!
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome that they had that going on during the play. It makes it more intense and exciting as a member of the audience.
DeleteI pay attention to the scenes of the play to get a better idea of the mood, but I don't pay a whole lot of attention to it unless I need to. I think that the actors should be doing the job of setting moods and stuff, but once in a while observing the scene becomes helpful when I don't pick up on things with the actors.
ReplyDeleteFor me personally, It makes the play a lot more interesting and easier to paint the picture in my mind of the message of the play and the overall scheme if the set is right, even just having a set period lol
ReplyDeleteThe setting really sets the mood for the audience and the people performing the play. It helps the audience understand and for the performs so they feel like it's reality.
ReplyDeleteI agree Taylor. If all settings were always the same I feel the stories being told would also be mostly the same. The scene is almost like an extra character in the story and it can and does have a major affect on the story itself.
DeleteI definitely pay attention to the scene of a any story that I am viewing. The character's surroundings and their environment set a certain mood for that scene and often does some foreshadowing.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you Levi! It does create a mood.
DeleteI think that Sets make the play as well, like having too much or too little can ruin a play. I think that it can add emotion and help emphasize that is going on in the play.
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