Othello Critique

This last show that we currently produced here at Hutchinson Community College which was Othello was a show that I wasn’t used too for different reasons. The first one was that I have never seen a production of Othello at all so I had no clue of what to expect with not only the acting but the design aspects of it as well. There were four design aspects that were different to me which were set, sound, costume and lights. None of these aspects are really my forte, these past two years is where I have been introduced to these four design aspects so my knowledge and my level of critiques are probably not the best but I am going to try and explain my thoughts on each and every one of them.
Starting with the set for this show was something new to me because I had never seen or worked with/on a set that was a one unit set and didn’t move and nothing happened to it at all. I liked how it was all black so that way it didn’t really determine one certain setting, but that it was used for different settings such as the outdoors, indoors and a bedroom. This set is also the first set that I have seen that had used metal in the set. I liked the metal look of it instead of just all wood, I don’t know why but it just gave it that look of something different and made it stand out to me. Another aspect of it that I liked was it skeleton look, because I could see when and where certain characters were hiding, and that you could always see when a certain character was entering and exiting.
Another aspect that I wasn’t used to was this sound design for the show. Because the only sound aspect there was in the show was the microphones on the actors. I have never been to or been a part of a production that had no pre-show, intermission and post-show music. For this production I liked how there really wasn’t any music at all throughout the whole production. Because it is a show that has a tragic ending and I believe that with no music it just has this emptiness in the room that makes