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"What statement on history and cultural memory is the play making? How does the
production design (set, music, choice of actors who play multiple roles) illustrate
this?"
Production Design
1. Light is placed everywhere
a. Distorted sources of light show the nature of the different angles in
history.
b. A place with different lights set shadows from different angles in such
a way that the shadows are dispersed and become a representation to
the disappearing and vague figures in history.
c. Light is placed in front and the back of the stage.
i. This shows that the play does not only want to show the
characters but also the shadows
d. Aside from the lamps, an intense white light is projected in times of
revelation or illumination during the discoveries of the young lead
historian
e. We are blinded from the past (something we cannot do about mostly)
and the future (a tragedy we can do something about by
acknowledging the present)
2. Scattered papers
a. History derives its complexity from the different narrators
i. False
ii. True
b. The crumpled state shows that we can hardly discern what is true from
fiction
c. Books that arise from these papers become the master narrative that
creates distinction, hierarchy and discrimination
3. Parchment walls
a. The dirty walls represent the kind of perennial problem of authenticity
and identity in history.
b. The parchment’s translucence contributes in creating spaces more than
in the apparent and immediately visible set.
i. It shows a projection of history as seen in the part of the female
teacher
ii. Forest scene
4. Actors
a. The actors play several characters most especially amongst the
historian figures
i. This shows that no matter how the names and faces change,
historians are faced with the same perennial problems of
confirming the past