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The House For Emily Play Analysis

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The set in the first act was the houses, mainly the kitchens, of the Gibbs family and the Webb family. The props that made up the set in this act consisted of a few chairs and tables, which represented the kitchens of the the two main families. Along with the chairs and tables were two arch way shaped props that represented the entrances to the houses of the two families. Those were the main props of the first scene, with some variations such as ladders to represent the second floor window view. The second act had a few different sets. There was the outside set, that contains no props, were George and Emily meet up after school one day. then there is the parlor set where there is a makeshift bar made of a piece of wood and two chairs that …show more content…

The second set is the kitchen of the Webb's house, but this set is part of a flashback and contains no props. As it can be seen the sets are not very detailed and have very few props if any at all. The play has a sense of simplicity about it due to the lack of set and prop design . I think the reason there is so little detail put into this stuff is because the point of this play is to look at the true meaning of what is going on, life, marriage, and death. The play does not want the audience to be distracted by the frivolous props and miss the meaning of the play, to live life in the present and not be distracted by the little things in life. Although the point of a non detailed set or prop collection was to get the viewers to focus more on the actions of the characters and not what they were interacting with, the lack of those items in a way detracted from the play by making some scenes less interesting due to the lack of actions and props simultaneously present in the scene. But for the most part, the lack of props and set design aided in getting the meaning of the play …show more content…

Along with the props and sets, there were other aspects of the play that helped guide the attention of the viewers such as the lights and the costumes. The lights changed throughout to help focus on the important parts of the play, such as at the end when all the deceased where sitting on the chairs and the lights were focused on them, then switched to the other side of the stage to switch to the set of Emily's flashback to her twelfth birthday in order to draw the attention of the crowd to that scene. Along with light forming directional forces it would also help to set the time. For example, there was a bright bluish-white light that was used to represent the presence

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