Trifles Response

There is this saying that goes "it's the little things that count"which immediately defines the title, "Trifles". I am not particularly a fan of this proposal because by stripping away the naturalistic setting of the play, it's also stripping away what this play stands for. If "Trifles" was set in such an abstract form, it would work, but a lot of that banks on the creative minds of the director and actors in order to portray to the audience how unkept the Wright's house looks or what the block that Mrs. Hale almost sits on signifies. The acting choices need to be bigger and stronger for the audience to be able to step into the world as well. A theatrical approach would also give the play a different response that is geared more towards the characteristics and question the situation of Mrs. Wright killing her husband. The circumstance would be viewed more as a whole than in individual pieces because you're asking the audience to use their imagination for the most part. To imagine a rocking chair, to imagine a quilt decked in different colors and everyone's imagination would be different, so everyone would leave with a different outcome of what they saw than what was written. It is an interesting exploration of dialogue though, something that would benefit the actors during the rehearsal process so they can find and reach that connection between one another. As a whole, the elements in "Trifles" are put in their for a reason, to show the audience what everyone misses out on when their looking at the big picture. For example, the birdcage the women find in the cupboard links to the dead bird with it's neck wrung, wrapped in a cloth, and makes complete sense as to why Mrs. Wright's sewing became eschew on specific patch of the quilt. It's suppose to be visualized for a reason.