The State Theatre Company South Australia reinvented Jane Austen’s classic Sense and Sensibility in a modernised 2018 production that has the audience’s eye’s glued to the stage and leaving with aching cheeks from endless belly laughs. This fun and heart-warming adaptation still retains the classic quaintness of Jane Austen’s gossip filled world of late 18th century England. The State Theatre Company put a spin on the classic 18th century English grand style and flair.
From the baby blue and pink set and costumes and modern music that has the audience bopping in their seat while lightening the ever-tragic love story and fight for wealth of the Dashwood family. Through the company’s unique collaboration of lighting, set, costume, props, multi-rolling and the themes and genre of the story, as described by the director Geordie Brookman, audiences …show more content…
au, 2018).
The unique and resourceful way the company used lighting in Sense and Sensibility not only was simply used to focus the audience’s attention with spot lights or to change the tone and atmosphere of the scenes but also to dramatically enhance the colours of costumes and sets and create an atmosphere. As the lighting designer Geoff Cobham stated, ‘I hope to make the characters visually” pop” out of the set. The actors should be the brightest thing onstage’ (Statetheatrecompany.com. au, 2018). However, the lighting did not stand alone in the performance but was used in conjunction with most other theatrical elements of the performance that elevated the grandness of the performance. The lighting was particularly used in conjunction with the set, not only create mood and make the colours more vibrant but to also create whole new spaces in the set. For example, in a scene we see the cast in the background of the set, in darkness, then in the forefront of the set we see Elinor and Edward
From the baby blue and pink set and costumes and modern music that has the audience bopping in their seat while lightening the ever-tragic love story and fight for wealth of the Dashwood family. Through the company’s unique collaboration of lighting, set, costume, props, multi-rolling and the themes and genre of the story, as described by the director Geordie Brookman, audiences …show more content…
au, 2018).
The unique and resourceful way the company used lighting in Sense and Sensibility not only was simply used to focus the audience’s attention with spot lights or to change the tone and atmosphere of the scenes but also to dramatically enhance the colours of costumes and sets and create an atmosphere. As the lighting designer Geoff Cobham stated, ‘I hope to make the characters visually” pop” out of the set. The actors should be the brightest thing onstage’ (Statetheatrecompany.com. au, 2018). However, the lighting did not stand alone in the performance but was used in conjunction with most other theatrical elements of the performance that elevated the grandness of the performance. The lighting was particularly used in conjunction with the set, not only create mood and make the colours more vibrant but to also create whole new spaces in the set. For example, in a scene we see the cast in the background of the set, in darkness, then in the forefront of the set we see Elinor and Edward