Trifles Blog Post

I think this proposal would be interesting to test. For all visuals to be neutral would mean for each audience members' mind to add it's own artistic elements. Just by reading me reading the play, I could already imagine what everything would look like and what color it would be. I can see how this can distract a spectator from the actual text. Sometimes it's more of scenery or visuals that catch someone's attention. If those fillers weren't there, then this would leave the audience to pay more attention and be captured by the text and message/story, or maybe even realize and understand what is really happening. After putting the image of a neutral stage in my mind and then going over the text again, I got a little more clarification on a few things. For example, I understood better the reason for the accusation of Mrs. Wright killing her husband when the bird was found with a wrung neck. At first I thought maybe Mrs. Wright had another personal problem and she killed both of them. Then when I took out all of the other distractions of how everything would look, the text became clearer to me quicker than it did before. However, I do believe that this staging of the play would take away creativity and something pleasing to the eye. But like I said previously it would challenge the audience to create different colors or images in their minds. It could either be really boring or really interesting.