The ruling idea

Nell Dunn is a feminist writer and so like some(prenominal) of her kind wrote shrink froms revolving around the livelihoods of women done solitary experiences and as groups. Steaming looks at the relationships of 6 women from different social associatees, ages and living in different scotch circumstances. However different these 6 women be, they ar brought in concert by the travel baths, a communal cast where only females attend. Through this close surround these women are seen gravitating towards distributively other and communicating openly despite their class distinction and in some cases are brought together by this trance with the opposing class.Effectively, the barriers of their class division are being brought down by the formation of female companionships. Josie is one of the poorest casings within the play, ab initio she is very cautious of my character Nancy, who is initially seen as her complete opposite as she derives from the upper class and is the wealthi est of all 6 women. However, towards the end of the act they are seen conversing together about men and money and it turns out that they arent as different as their stereotypes assume them to be.We wanted to take the idea of class barriers and show how individually woman, although initially different comes to appreciate these differences to find out how very sympathetic they in event are. The commission in which we utilise staging, circle and costume was very master(prenominal) in embedding our ruling idea in the play and using baffling factors within these aspects to present this idea to the audience. * The starting way in which we created this was through the design of the set. A simple set of 4 white blocks set in a square formation was employ at the important focus to the play and was where the majority of the action occurred.In doing so we were suitable to create a sense of togetherness in the enclosed space where intercourse was accessible to all and left none of t he characters out. This achieved a sense of integrity among the group but withal an understanding of acceptance among characters as each individual had their own bed -as it were- where they could keep their personal belongings and likewise use the space to rest, where they would not be apart from the rest of the group. non only this but the colour of the blocks was to a fault significant and symbolizationic.White creates a sense of purity and seeing as the baths are a place of cleanliness this seemed justified and would probably be found in conventional bathhouse. However, the nub behind this choice goes deeper. Not only is the colour meant to symbolise cleanliness of a hygienic environment but it also comes to represent purity that cannot be found in the outside world, a place of troubles and grime. * The second way we achieved this was the use of costume. On entering the baths each individual character is corrosion their everyday clothes, a symbol of their individual tastes, wealth and class.The costume initially gives the audience an impression of these characteristics and can perhaps makes a judgement on them and in most cases stereotype them for example Mrs Meadows and Dawn are first seen holding cheap plastic carrier bags, slippers and quite tattered sounding clothes and myself as Nancy appear in patent black habilitate and pearls. These outfits were purposefully chosen due to our group interpretation but also to create this stereotype so as to enable us to evoke our reasoning behind the bathrobes. The bathrobes, like the blocks, are also white, another symbol of purity and also conventional steam room wear.Like the blocks they were used to enable each character to come from the outside world, full of problems and troubles and mould themselves of the clothes their class and wealth restrict them to. Having done so, stereotypes that society creates of them are destroyed and suddenly they all become equal despite these factors. We used the colour white for the beds and the robes in an ironic way as in actual fact, a part of what this colour is meant to represent- purity and cleanliness is far from what these womens lives genuinely entail.Each women is subject to cases of either domestic violence, mental disorder or divorce, all which would have been shocking to be talked about so openly on stage. * A small factor is the play but also a very significant one, which added to our ruling idea, was the use of the character buck Bradley. Nell Dunn purposefully wrote this play without a man in it and so the character of Bill is heard cheering from somewhere in the distance, responding to Violets hassles about the corrode pipesWe used this to our advantage and made a point of really shouting at him as if he were a complete nuisance not particularly because of the pipes but because he was a man and this slotted in with the fact that each and every woman at the baths has her grievances about men. From the way Dunn wrote this play it is evident that this was his purpose, to be completely set apart from this group of women who are slowly coming closer and closer to one another.