Second, the stage design echoes the intentions of the actors and directors
The throne is a worn-out leather chair
There is no excessive stage background and prop settings, the core of the Forest version is the performance technology of the actors, and the props on the stage that can best create a live atmosphere and reflect the perception are the people themselves. Shakespeare's plays embody the characteristics of "human nature" in the Renaissance, and the minimalist stage setting of the Forest version will follow the audience's every move to a greater extent, so that Hamlet's fall is not only an elegy for the death of a hero, but the beauty and ugliness, good and evil in human nature.
Different from the exquisite and luxurious stage of traditional European drama
The tragedy that should have taken place in the golden splendor of the court, the whole stage was covered with gray and dark linen, and the curtain of the back scene was also the same arrangement, rough and bleak, such a design and our previous contrast to the luxurious court architecture in Europe. The palace after the wedding of the new king should be a splendid interlaced with flowers, but the light on the stage is dim, and the hanging pole above hangs a worn-out fan. The machines piled up on both sides of the stage, the king's throne symbolizes the supreme kingship, but it becomes the broken leather chair of the barbershop, and all this sets outline the chaotic and disorderly qiankun in the play, symbolizing that people under noble status have dirty hearts and filthy fleas under their costumes. Magnificent props are discarded, the director focuses more on the artistic effects expressed in the play itself, the actors are the fulcrum of all, and the rustic stage is like Hamlet's soul deep in the world, covered with melancholy ashes. "I can choose any space and call it an empty stage. A person walking through this space under the gaze of others is enough to form a drama. "Actors in the empty space, can be fully played and imagined, the tension of the actor's performance and the emotion of the line is the moving props, the set has never been replaced, the unchanged and empty gives the stage plasticity and flexibility, it can be a Danish castle, cemetery, field, bring the audience to the set scene of each play, the actor's sincere performance for the audience to create a real space." The structural script not only recombines the storyline, but also allows the scheduling of the stage to show a sense of rhythm, and the two achieve each other.
Hamlet duels with his uncle
The cool tones of black and white gray make the strong emotions that burst out of the actors when performing, like a white canvas splashed with bright dyes, more and more obvious. After that, all emotions will be diluted again, and finally calm. When Hamlet and Leotis duel, the fan on the metal pole is lowered, pressing the countertop, creating a depressing and eerie atmosphere, the two actors perform a virtual performance without physical objects, and shuttle back and forth between them, competing, such freehand, creation and traditional drama is the opposite, the two and the fan machine is the most fierce duel, the stage picture is full of power. "Everything that acknowledges the non-essence of drama reveals to us not only the main power of the artistic means, but also the deep treasure buried in the characteristics of the art form." Minimalist choreography, leaving a pure space, abandoning a large-scale design that conforms to the background of the times, the stage is controllable and controlled by the actors, leaving behind the artistic pursuit of the authenticity of the drama. Focus on the form of expression, use imagery and metaphor to replace more content, so as to achieve the effect of "separation". Moreover, most of the actors' costumes are also simple and unpretentious, wearing casual clothes, high-powered princes and nobles, and they do not look so noble, they are born equal, they are also ordinary ordinary people. The simplicity of the stage and the actors returns to the theatrical style of the Shakespeare era, supplementing the visual deficiency with hearing, fully demonstrating the director's intention, and reflecting the characteristics of the Renaissance from god to man.