Metamorphoses In John Cariani's Almost Maine

Metamorphoses appealed to me as I have always been drawn to plays compiled of vignettes as an audience member. The similarly styled production Almost Maine, by John Cariani, is my personal favorite due to its vignette nature. As a director, I saw the potential with the range of characters. Once I put down the play after first reading it, I had a lot of ideas running amuck. To help identify what my vision was in simpler terms and start to filter my ideas, I began by defining a shape, color, and size of what I wanted the audience to feel from the play. This was a method I learned throughout my educational tenure in my six years of theater classroom education. My shape is shown to the right. This is an undefined figure, which represents the fluidity of the play and the use of the pool to make physical and emotional changes. The color, light blue, was chosen because of the use of the pool and water has …show more content…
As I would want to help the audience to relate to the characters, my interpretation would take the play into a modern adaption while maintaining the integrity of the show and its roots to the Greek culture. This would be accomplished by my set design and my technical directions to be given to each technical manager in their respective field.
I find if extremely important the audience relate to the characters and the plot. As an audience member, I have felt that I always took more away from a production when the gap between what is happening on the stage and me as a person, is closed. One example is the production entitled Almost Maine. This play portrays accurate and typical love stories that almost everyone has gone through at least once in their life. When I left the theater, my heart felt complete and satisfied and I had a new outlook on life and on love. I want to help my audience feel an emotion and satisfaction as