Guardian.UK: Should theatre leave more to the imagination?
My benchmark for stage sets came early. At the University of Houston, when I was 16. My sister took me to “Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “The Tempest”, done in an outdoor theatre composed of a semicircular platform with steps on each end. Costumes were worn. The dialogue and the acting, the evening’s dark carried the whole thing.
Video and digital are nice, but they split audience attention from the actors. One must be subtle and tasteful.
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