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Answer: There are a number of productions which feature reflective floors, shiny floors that reflect what's going on on stage. I think your 'Much Ado About Nothing, reflection of actors in the floor. Oh Much Ado, I also did that with Terry. That again was quite sort of, like everything I do, sort of unconscious. It had a mirrored floor and had mirrored side walls which were afterwards, later in the critiques was referred to what a clever idea, that an narcissitic quality of the characters was conveyed by the use of mirrors and I thought 'Oh jolly good', I'm glad that I had this great idea. It never occurred to me when I was doing it, I just thought it looked rather good. I thought it made it made rather romantic, I did it because it created a romantic environment with trees, abstracted trees reflected in the mirrors and the actors reflected. The interesting thing about mirrored floors is you actually never look at the reflection of the actor, it's there but you always look at the actor. Occasionally I have been told that directors are worried that it's distracting, you simply do not look at it. I find I make myself look at the reflection to convince myself it's actually there but you look at the actor you don't look at that. Somehow with the light and so on it gives it air but it doesn't take away from the actor who, as I've said in various places, is finally the most important element I should say, of the stage picture. The focus always needs to be on the actor and the nature of the environment to be successful, should be, or as I consider it, should be supportive to the actor and the greatest compliment that ever I might have about a set that I have designed or even costumed for that matter, is when I get it from the actor. If an actor says "I'm happy here" then I am really happy. The director saying "Oh I like that" is usually relief that I don't have to do it again, the fact that he likes it simply means he says so, doesn't mean it's terribly good, it just means he likes and so good, we don't have to do it again. If an actor says "I'm happy" then that means something, it means he feels he's being supported by the space in which he finds himself. |
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This clip may be used for educational purposes only, any commercial use of this material requires permission from the copyright holders. Misuse or misrepresentation may result in legal action. Copyright holder: Christie Carson, COMPH, Royal Holloway University of London. |
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