An audience will happily believe that a bare wooden platform is a blasted heath one minute and the castle of Dunsinane the next; designers soon discover that they need only a few strips of green silk to suggest the forest of Arden. In my experience, audiences enjoy being made to take that imaginative leap; at the end of the performance, the audience are applauding themselves as well as the actors for they, too, have been involved in creating the act of theatre.
-Nick Ormero, on the Guardians Theatre blog (emphasis added)
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An interesting way to look at it. Valid, yet somewhat discounts the skill of the designer in creating this kind of illusion. Since Nick Ormero is a production designer himself, I would be interested to see on what level his designs look to ‘meet’ his audience.
