"Pwy Sy'n Sal" - Molière double bill in Welsh translation/1994
Directors: Graham Laker and Firenza Guidi
DESIGNER: MARTIN MORLEY
Photograph: Dylan Rowlands
This was a double bill of Welsh language versions of "Le Malade Imaginaire"("Y Claf Diglefydd") and
"Le Médecin Malgré Lui"("Doctor Di-glem"). The directors had very different approaches to style and the meaning of period in the context of a theatrical production.
The unifying visual factor was the basic structure of the set, though each used it in a different way. The costumes for "Y Claf Diglefydd" were broadly traditional, i.e. they treated time in an historical way.
For "Doctor Di-glem", we raided period forms and silhouettes and wedded them loosely to modern fashion. The palette for "Y Claf Diglefydd" was rich and the fabrics heavy. In "Doctor Di-glem"
it was sunny creams and whites, with occasional flashes of colour, and very lightweight fabrics. The set was a 3D drawing, in steel, of a classical room-cum-courtyard, behind which was a double row of shuttered windows. The stage floor was a formal marbled pattern on MDF.
(For more information about the designer see his entry in the Designers' Register)