"Except the designer didn't design a confinement box, a train, a courtroom, and a shadow puppet show. Stroman created those things OUT OF the chairs. The set designer created the chairs (which were probably purchased, not made) and basically nothing else. You are so focused on the concept that you can't separate the actual design from the direction."
Nope sorry. I know for a fact that they were built with all those things in mind. And i think you're missing the fact that stroman is a director, not a set designer. She can say i need a train, and send the designer off to come back with his idea. Thats how directing works. And you have no idea who came up with what. Borit (sp) is seasoned. He's been around for a while. I have to believe all of his efforts here were calculated, and that he had input on his design. But we know for a fact that stroman was not building sets in between choreographing and directing this show.
And if you use a sheet to be a back drop, then let it fall to be come the floor, and then raise it to be a wall, its still a part of the set. I dont see how this is different. I think where you are faltering is in your ability to separate flash from substance.
Furthermore i said it before. Minstrel shows were minimal. Keeping with the theme dictated that there couldnt be a giant clockworks dragon, or lifts, or cars that roll onto the stage. Its not in the genre and its not period.
I can get if you just dont like it. Fine. But just cause you dont like it does not mean that it didnt do for the story what it was supposed to. It did it quite well.
Thoughts?
