Trifles

I think to propose this play in a minimalistic world with abstract/blank setting will take away how we feel when we see the items in question or when we first see the kitchen untidy and abandoned. I feel as though this version of the play can happen however in my opinion it would lose a piece of why the play hits you as it does. In the script the author tells you in details how things are suppose to look and what the objects look like that are handled. If we change those things we are changing what the playwright originally had wanted for a production and therefore change the mood of how it is interpreted. For example, the box that the bird is kept in should be an elaborate and beautiful box. The script says, " I expect this has got sewing things in it.(brings out a fancy box) What a pretty box" (Glaspell 4). You could argue that the box does not necessarily be pretty if the director were focusing on just the words, however if we are focusing on words AND emotion than that would change the fact that we need a pretty box. I say this because later in the script Mrs. Hale convinces herself that Mrs. Wright could not have killed the bird because of how she put it wrapped in this pretty box. She says, "She liked the bird. She was going to bury it in that pretty box"(Glaspell 5).  This statement means more to the viewers if they can see the box was beautiful and taken care of, rather than it being just a plain ole white box. Seeing the care of how the bird would be buried gives more emotion that having the audience imagining if the box were prettier. Though i would not like a production done in the minimal style for this play, that does not mean that it couldn't be done and still effect other people. I just believe that in doing so, the director is taking away something from what the playwright had intended.