Production Design

If I were to direct a play in Shakespeare, for example Macbeth, I would research the background and synopsis of the play, along with each character. Furthermore, I would watch a collection of past interpretations of the play and adapt my own of what I think is the best way to portray the tragedy.

If I were to take a look at the script I would allow the most important scenes take more time rather than all the dialogue scenes as often youth audiences tend to get bored due to the large paragraphs and so on and so forth. In addition I may translate a lot of the shakespeare language in to modern language english as if this play were to educate those studying the performance, it may make it easier to understand. With the costumes, I may want to make a few changes to it as I have decided to change the language to modern english resulting to a modern version of Macbeth. With the stage, I would use simple objects such as a board with wheels to transition from scene to scene which for one makes it easier for the scene change and two less pieces of set to worry about making when two can be merged to one.