CEDesign

Design Questions- Cole Earnest (actor//;// //Words, Words, Words)//


 * 1)  The performers in the play are acting as monkeys that are being used in an experiment. The monkeys are aware that they are being watched, but they don’t realize that it is an audience. watching them. They acknowledge the scientists conducting the experiment.
 * 2)  No, the performers are in an enclosed room, and the audience is in an adjoining room observing from where the scientists would be in the diegetic world of the play.
 * 3)  It takes place in modern times. It could be present day. That is probably the choice that we as a group will make. That doesn’t really change much from an actor’s standpoint though because we are playing monkeys.
 * 4)  It is taking place in a lab somewhere in the United States.
 * 5)  It is midday because the experiment is taking place.
 * 6)  The set will probably have a crazy swing because monkeys like to swing. The actors will be in some goofy attire that suggests that we are monkeys.
 * 7)  It’s inside, so the temperature is room temperature, maybe a little bit colder. It is a lab experiment, so the lighting is probably very bright and sharp.
 * 8)  The characters have no physical wealth because they are monkeys in captivity. They take whatever they are given by the experimenters (food, cig arettes), but they are willing to work for those small things.
 * 9)  They are monkeys on which an experiment is being conducted.
 * 10)  It is tough to say, but I would guess about six or seven.
 * 11)  Those three monkeys are the only friends any of them have ever had. They can only understand each other and only talk to each other, so they are very comfortable with each other. there is a sort of sibling relationship between them.
 * 12)  All three characters are given equal emphasis.
 * 13)  there are no entrances or exits.
 * 14)  A desk with a typewriter is needed for each monkey because the experiment is to see if any of them will produce //Hamlet.// All three monkeys are constantly typing away throughout the scene.