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 ID: 166375 Posts: 521 | Date: 2007-01-31 09:16 Which colours create what mood on the theatre stage?Love to Love |
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 ID: 172911 Posts: 251 | Date: 2007-02-02 03:36 i always thought there were actors that make that mood  |
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ID: 166375 Posts: 521 | Date: 2007-02-07 04:30 Well the decorations mean a lot, for example if your mood is sad it usually is a
dark color and if the mood is romantic its red..Love to Love |
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| Date: 2007-04-14 15:02 Lighting has a lot to do with it ! |
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| Date: 2007-04-15 11:50 I know what you mean - take the Witches from Macbeth, or the Storm in King Lear,
the colours are dark and forbidding. If you look at cinema, do you ever see the
bad guys wearing light blue or yellow? No! And do you ever see the good guys
dressed in black, while the bad guys are dressed in a light colour? Nuh-uh!
-_- That sucks. The only time the colours are reversed is in certain teen movies
 the
bimbos and bitches are given colour, bright fuschia pink and white and all the
appealing colours, and the kids who are essentially the protagonists in the
movie? Black. Grey. Some nondescript shade of muck. Only in the cool vs
righteous do you get colour switching sides!
*ahem* but when speaking of theatre, very often symbolism is involved: the
presence of red and white can represent love and spring; red and black, betrayal
and death and treachery; certain greens can represent humour and other greens
can symbolise jealousy. When it comes to theatre it makes sense that colours are
used to reflect what's going on in the scene, because not everyone understands
right away what's happening, so by associating the colours with cultural
symbols, some people will find it easier to understand the content. Apart from
that, it sets the mood, the tone, ok... the -setting- for the scene, which can
give the audience clues as to what's going to happen next. In Shakespeare's day
this was very important - if you displeased your audience you were in for a
tomato flying straight at your ear! And if you pleased them too suddenly perhaps
they would shout and stamp in delight that you wouldn't be able to carry on your
play! So giving them clues to the content of the next scene was always a plus.
You could say that surprise was the enemy of the Shakespearian actor!
But apart from that, picture the audience in Shakespeare's day. Most of them
were what were known as 'groundlings', those too poor to pay for a view from the
galleries so they sat on the ground. Who was that poor in those days? Usually
the uneducated. Would the uneducated understand everything being said? Probably
not. And if the play is particularly popular, the theatre would be full of
groundlings, many of them too far from the stage to hear exactly what was being
said. So while a villain's speech may go unheard, his body language and his
costume will be seen, and in this way those too far away from the stage would
understand what was going on.
Oh boy, I hope I didn't ramble terribly 
but I felt I had to explain the importance of colour in theatre. Nowadays we
have technology to help us out, so lighting certainly plays a big part in
setting the tone of a scene, and sometimes it's coloured too. I'd say your best
bet in discovering which colours are used for what in theatre is to go by
stereotyping the colour and it's connotations
[black=negative,death;red=dramatic,love,etc], and of course research the use of
colour in theatre. |
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