The Gas Heart is, out of the modernist plays I have studied, the one that has the most variety in production design. With characters named after body parts but with no actual advice within the text as to how these characters should be costumed and performed, there is a huge variety in design choices betweenContinue reading “Design in ‘The Gas Heart’”
Tag Archives: Theatre
Ubu, Puppetry, and Parody
The main difference between Alfred Jarry’s King Ubu and the other modernist plays featured in this blog, Jarry had a set idea for the design and this has largely been stuck to throughout various productions of the play and adaptations into other forms. Jarry’s design for Pa Ubu as a fat, extremely round man inContinue reading “Ubu, Puppetry, and Parody”
Modernist Adaptations 