Prestatement: my brain kinda hates me right now, so if i confuse you, or anything like that, i'm sorry. It doens't want to help me convey my thoughts right now...
I think a propsal such as what has been suggested would really promote the imagination. Maybe it's just me, but i feel the need for detail. If i'm reading any type of story, i like to visualize what's being talked about. For instance, if someone said a birdcage, i would invision all of the bird cages i've seen before, and try to pick the best one that would fit within the play. I appreciate the story being heard, but i love the story being seen as it unfulrs.
If you were to do a production of Trifles in a manner such as this, you would gain an importance of dialouge, but you would loose the visual intellegence of a play. It would be the equivilance of me telling you the story by myself. Yes, you would focous on the words coming out of my mouth, and the movements i'm making, but your visual idea of the objects may differ far from the actual ojects, unless you know of the setting, have seen it before, and remember the details. The spectators aren't provided with the script (as it's been said man times over in class) therefore, they've no idea the ideal setting that is being provided, they only know the world of which they themselves have created for the play. So in less words, yes the director would accheive conveying the idea of the importance of the words and emotions over that of the visual details. but then again, that is the idea. right?
To answer the last question: Yes, i can imagine the production in such a way. How ever i feel it loose the details that are needed. Yes the character talk in depth of the detail but i feel as though visual aid is needed in some areas as to correctivly convey the idea/situation of what's going on. For instance, what if people have no idea what a quilt is, what knotting of a quilt looks like (i know i have no idea what the heck that means) or even what preserves are(maybe they're yanks, or french).
Again, my brain and i aren't in agreable terms right now, and that's all it's willing to help me say. Until again my friends! :D
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