Trifles

I think if you were to strip the play down in Trifles using only blank blocks and abstract colors it would lose the appeal of the play. The woman would have to over dramatize everything because it isn’t often for woman today to preserve fruit and sew quilts or simply stay at home all day long with no children. The world today is too modernized and the scene that we read from Trifles is far too different from the world we know. I just don’t think the dialogue and plot would translate well with a modern day audience. I think the characters would have to be so theatrical in their dialogues it would become almost comical and people wouldn’t take the actors serious in what is a rather serious scene that is trying to determine whether a woman’s depression and loss drove her to kill her very own husband. This scene is too elaborate and the costumes and colors and props are too valuable to the scene to be erased and replaced with blank abstract props and colors. It would become very confusing, wondering why these two woman are speaking this way and Mr. Hale would need a team to go to Mr. Wright to install a phone when you are never able to see what type of background they are set in. The men are fairly normal and seem like modern day men which might throw you off since the woman’s characters are the exact opposite they are fixated on the historical things about the play and since the woman are sort of the focal point of the play it is too critical for the audience to be able to understand what is going on and when and where this is taking place and to me the proposal to blank and black out the colors and props is just too much of a risk.