Initial Idea's

I finally have the internet! So I can get everything on here now, only trouble is that the pictures don't want to move so i'm going to have to post lots of little posts to get it on here until I find a way to sort it.

It all starts with Carol Ann Duffy's dramatisations of the Grimm Tales, which I read through and, with my background being in film, really struggled to visualise as any kind of theatre production. In my head I was switching camera angles and locations like a film would which obviously would not work on a stage.

The only story I seemed to have any ideas for was The Golden Goose, which I had never heard of before so I decided to take this story as a basis for my work and see what I could build up.

TUDOR

As I have been interested in this period of history for as long as I can remember I have decided to look into this further to use as a genre for this project. Over the years I have collected quite a few books on this period, some focusing on the architecture, some on the clothing and others on social issues around the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

From breaking down the script, I decided to focus on the last 3 scenes. In these scenes, Dummling and his followers arrive the Great City and make the Princess laugh. Which results in Dummling and the Princess getting married in the final scene.

When applying this scene to the Tudor period, I figured that the visitors would have been greeted in the Great Hall by appointment and then the marriage could have taken place in either the Great Hall, the chapel or a nearby church. I began researching Tudor architecture and sketching designs for the Great Hall set.

Panelling is a key element in Tudor architecture, interior and exterior.