Director's Concepts Guiding Director's Choices

Example of Director's Choices in "Another Brick in the Wall"

Color Scheme: Red, Black and White 

1. Strong colors chosen to show the strength of quick judgment, which is not often deeply analyzed, simply black and white. 

2. Red is a passionate color and will read as such. It also is the color often associated with bricks. 

3. COSTUME CHOICE: All cast members (except factory workers & crew members) will be dressed in variations of black, white and red.) 

4. COSTUME CHOICE: Main character who breaks the pattern of judgment is NOT in black at the end of the show, like the others, but rather red.

5. COSTUME CHOICE: Factory workers (and crew members) must be distinguished as a separate group from the rest of the play. Their pieces are transition moments and times for the audience to evaluate what happened (Read: Brecht). They wear blue to contrast the red. Also, many manual laborers in Senegal wear these blue jumpsuits, so the audience will read them as such.   

6. SET CHOICE:  Sets and wall pieces are painted in these colors

Use of Wall/Brick Imagery

1) SET CHOICE: Huge wall will be built by factory workers/crew members each time a moment of judgment occurs. Eventually the wall will cover the whole front of the stage, blocking actors' pathway.

2) SET/ACTING CHOICE:At the end of the show, the actors will break out of their character and speak directly to the audience, knocking down the wall. They will declare that they are sick of the judgment.

3) SET CHOICE:Set will be a mix of different pieces of wall pieced together. It should not be one full wall. It should be pieced together with different types of wall (ie different pieces of judgment)

4) SOUND CHOICE:"Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd will be used for transitions to reiterate the idea of the wall of judgment growing and the passing of time.

Use of Factory to Represent Society

1) SET/ACTING CHOICE: To compliment the scenes of the baby-making factory, the Factory Workers will be omnipresent, overseeing what we do and influencing choices.

2) COSTUME CHOICE: Factory workers will be dressed differently (blue, see previous comment)

3) SET CHOICE:Factory will be on the 2nd floor, in shadows

4) ACTING CHOICE: Factory workers will enter after each scene to "clean up" from what occurred. 

5) ACTING CHOICE: Factory workers will move mechanically throughout the play, which will further distinguish their differences from the others.