STAGE AND SCREEN COMBINATION

Scene 1 Scene 2

Isabella left her living room and went to the garden.

The incomplete perception of Isabella makes her image as a still and dimly painting.

As Isabella's social life is speculated, her secret letters are unfolded in the narrator's mind, revealing the images of her friends or lovers.

The letters brought by the postman hangs on the boom, interrupting the narrator's thinking.

With the addition of more materials, the imaginary Isabella was out of the scope of his guessing and the image began to become more three-dimensional and vivid.

The narrator imagines the dark side of Isabella's life and her inevitable old age. How she will die in this garden.

The narrator believes that Isabella's inner world is inaccessible, like shadows looming behind a curtain

The approaching real Isabella makes the imaginary space began to collapse, and her feet also stepped out of the mirror.

The physical model shows the living room where the narrator is located, and the screen on the back shows the image of Isabella She and the environment around her will appear within the scope of a golden mirror, as a visual presentation of the narrator's inner world.

Showing how interior interact with exterior on set.

Explore the way of combining Screen - Imaginary Space and Stage The Real Room, and gradually divided them in 2 parts.

The cupboard and the vase

In front of the screen

The dining table and sofa

In the living room

The cabinet and the letters

Background Research

Orlando as a biographical play, Virginia Woolf integrated the historical period across the 5 centuries with the life experience. The exterior and interior development is showed in these images.

- Research Of Building Styles In The 5 Centuries