THST 3950 Lecture 3: Notes from the play "The Complete Deaths"

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Theatre Studies
• Course: THST 3950
• Professor: Julie Simmons

Document Summary

Memorable deaths performed: titus adronicus play people kept being pushed into / jumping into a meat mincing machine, macbeth done through dance and song, othello character of desdemona killed with wall/shadow puppets to represent strangling. Julius caesar performed with paper doll puppets on a table. Julius caesar"s death done through the cast betraying one of their own and kicking him out of the performance: titus adronicus last death; done with killing of a fly. Fly: flies were prevalent throughout the entire show some type of weird theme, used a fly cam during the performance and flies on sticks, video of real fly too, bred flies to get the theme down. Set/background: the actual set / stage had nothing really on it, the play used props depending on the scene but the background was still bland, made it easy to transition from play to play.