AM+Beckett's+Play+Assignment

Question 1. Imagine you were sitting in a small hall watching a production of the play you heard read in class. Then consider the filmed production found below. In what ways has the film maker revised Beckett's instructions given in the text to suit the medium of film and how does that change your reception of the play?

The producer of the film of Beckett's //Play// took advantage of the ability to cut from scene to scene to give each of the three characters in the urns their own spotlight. Contrasted with Beckett's idea to use spotlights to highlight each character, this action of cutting back and forth between zoomed in portraits of each character helps to better the idea of a personal hell (purgatory) that I believe Beckett was going for. Although this idea, is different from what Beckett originally wrote, I think it helps to better portray the anguish of each character. I also believe that if I were to see this performance live, it would be hard for the technical and light crew to get the timing of each spotlight right. This would affect the tempo of the performance, which would hurt the overall action of the performance.