Meditation 7...Staging of Lysistrata

Title/Subject:Since the play Lysistrata is a comedy, I can picture the background as being somewhat bright and almost comical too. The brightness of the background will help to audience realize as soon as they walk in that this play will not be one that will get them down and depressed, like many of the Greek tragedies do. The background could have funny pictures of statues of men and women that represent how that gender is feeling at a particular time. Therefore the background would change as the story goes on.
I could also, and possibly even more, see the background as being very dull and just looking like a normal home or town. This probably makes more since to me because it would not take away from the humor in this play. Now the audience can focus fully on what the characters are saying and not worry with what the background is trying to say also. Here the lights would just be normal white, but I could also see dark colors coming into play when the men are craving sex with the women, and the women will not do it. The dark colors would represent how the men feel without their women. Then when a conclusion is met, a bright, bright white light would be shown to represent the mutual gladness of the men and women. This play could have several different backgrounds, but these are what strike me as what the staging would look like.