esigner suit, for the rest of the play, until he returns to take Faustesse to hell, at which point he will not be a human presence, but rather a red spotlight, with words reverberating around the theater as he speaks the words fools that will laugh on earth, often weep in hell This is to bring out the metatheatrical meaning of what he is saying, and to add importance to that passage, and more importantly, that line. I plan on using a circular stage, but one in which only half the stage is visible to the audience, who are seated from one side of half the stage to the other side of the half stage. The back half of the stage would be shielded by a curtain. There are a variety of reasons why I would choose to use the half stage as the stage for the performance of this modern day version of the play. First of all, with only half of the stage being visible, it is representative of Faustesses personality, where at the beginning she only thinks about the physical and the present, such as what she would do with the magic power in the present, as in what tricks she plans on playing, and she does not think about the future,, neither in what she may do in her future, or about what a future of eternity in hell really means, she simply doesnt comprehend such an everlasting idea. Another feature of the stage will be that it wills lowly rotate, such that at the end of the play the stage will have turned 18o degrees so that the audience is not viewing the opposite side of the stage from when the play first started out. The idea presented behind the rotating stage is that as the stage is turning the years are passing, representing the time frame of 24 ears in which the play takes place. Also, as the stage slowly progresses and turns for ward time, we begin to se Faustesse future which was formerly covered in darkness at the beginning of the play, and we begin to see what Dr. Faustesse future reveals. When at the end of the play the stage has completed it...
