11. The mood of the play
A pink set for Macbeth?
A set in earth tones for a Feydeau
farce?
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13. The Design gives us a ton of
information about the play.
•We get a sense of the style of the play
•Is it a comedy or a tragedy?
•We get a sense of the time of the play: historical time period,
season, even the time of day
•We get a sense of the characters who inhabit the play
Are they rich or poor, old or young, neatniks or slobs
•We get a sense of where the playwright has placed the play
Are we in Africa…or Iceland!
•And perhaps most importantly, we get a sense of the mood of
the play which suggests how we should feel.