Interpretations throughout the play

Throughout the play I learnt there were many scenes that had a huge significance, for instance, we already know that Autaud's objective in The theatre of cruelty was to make people uncomfortable. Now, Victorians, to put it bluntly were very prude and saw sex as a taboo of something they were not to talk about, otherwise it would be looked down on, how they saw it was women did not have sexual fantasies that was just for the men (Hence why men were allowed mistresses and so on).

An idea I had that was probably going to be used anyhow was an idea taken from that of "The shining" and "American Beauty", in which the colour red is continously used, for instance in act 2 scene 1, Lucy is bitten by Dracula and we use a red sheet to signify blood, this makes for a great affect as we don't have to use real blood.  But looks better than the obvious anyway and people will understand what it signifies.

Along with this, we used red lips, in my opinion perhaps thinking too deeply, red lips on everyone's lips could mean the sexual desires we all have, but choose not to act on. Hence why everyone had red lips not just one specific person.

Obviously we used roses as they were read to go along with the red theme of blood. These are thrown upon Lucy and the red sheet trailing below her to symbolise her death.

The Shining (1980)

American Beauty (1999)