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This paper is a creation description elaborating on the process of how the author used stage design to interpret an emerging play, The Pillowman, by Martin McDonagh. The Pillowman, a play that reflects the quest for personal life experience, was selected for stage design, and Chiang Wei-Shui Theater was where the stage design was carried out. The author attempted to interpret the play from a narrator’s point of view to analyze the spiritual world of Katurian, who is a writer in the play. The spiritual world was transformed into specific visual impressions and integrated with the scenes in reality; this special framework of the stage corresponded to the narrativity in the play and the characteristic of being juxtaposed with scenes in reality, and in turn consolidated the entire play’s atmosphere. In the creation process, after a play was firstly selected, relevant symbols were extracted to develop visual form through research and analysis of background information of The Pillowman. Then, after case analysis and comparisons of performance forms and styles were made, the concept of using perspectives of characters in the play as the theme of creation was developed for the content of stage design, with the assistance of material and image processing. Design works encompass the blueprint of stage design, the costume design drawings, the stage model drawings, the technical images of the stage, and the graphics of lighting simulation. The overall creation is not only a realism representation, but also a space allowing the audience to think and imagine.
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