M.Tech. Drama. Tshwane University of Technology / The aim and purpose of this study was to determine how a director might approach the topic of intimacy on stage, using David Hare's The Blue Room, as a case study. In order to determine how intimacy might play out on stage, an understanding of intimacy was important. The literature review of intimacy posed a problem in the form of a lust/romantic love continuum. The question was then, what is intimacy and how does it play out in these two opposites of the continuum, namely a relationship as opposed to lust. This also needed a description of what love and lust might be. The literature review shows that there are three basic principles involved when establishing a relationship: nearness, similarity, and reward. It also became apparent that the characters in the play often used these principles to set up the idea of a relationship in order to fulfil a lustful desire or to gain a personal reward The sociopetal and sociofugal forces as explained by the study of proxemics became an ideal way of explaining how the characters use/abuse these principles of relationship to steer a situation towards their own personal goal. It also created a tool for establishing the actor system relationships as well as the character system relationships and the actor/character duality. The use of space in production became central to this study in various domains, such as the space between actor and actor, the space between the character system and audience, and the actual performance space. Fundamentally the way in which space is used in everyday life to convey meaning became a useful directing and analytical tool. To understand the generation of meaning, the study of semiotics was used. Semiotics is concerned with the generation and understanding of meaning. This was an integral part of the study as it allowed one to understand how meaning is generated so that this process could be used to recreate the desired meaning on stage. It can be argued that the setting up of signifiers that could potentially convey certain meanings, such as that of intimacy through actions, speech, voice, décor and essentially the use of space was a very useful tool for the director in the pursuit of both the generation of intimacy meaning systems and in the process of understanding the acting and directing process more effectively.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:tut/oai:encore.tut.ac.za:d1000475 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Theron, Soné. |
| Contributors | Munro, Allan John, 1953- |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | |
| Rights | © 2012 Tshwane University of Technology |
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