Directing

I think this was a fabulous play if not one of my favorites now. It stands up amongst that of Frost/Nixon. For my part I looked at the directing. The three things that I am going to talk about is the casting, blocking, and sound.

As for the casting I don't think that the director could have done a better job of picking the actors for this play. Each and everyone of them did and outstanding job. The one actor that I thought the director messed up on at first was the nephew of the Doctor. After a few lines and seeing the movement of the play, he was outstanding in his gestures and chicken howling. This proves not to take first impressions of people and actors.

The second thing that I looked at was blocking, the one time that I liked how the director used blocking was when Argan was mad and the wife's boyfriend had to leave in means of going through the door with Argan standing in it with his back to the audience. We didn't need to look at Argan's face to know his anger, we could see it in the other actors facial expressions. This was set up to resemble that of a mirror.

Finally, this brings me to sound. The director was also in charge of the sound design. I feel that he knew that if the sounds were off, it would show, and the show would not be as funny as it should be. An example of the sounds were Argan passing gas, and the thunder when the wife was coming. each had to be precise to go along with the actors movements and did in this production.

Again, I thought this was a wonderful play to see and am glad I got the chance to see this directors point of view of what he was wanting to express.

Brad