Signifying Meaning through Theatrical Design: A Reading of Esiaba Irobi’s Hangmen Also Die in Performance

Abstract

Design in the theatre is a very specialized area of theatre study and practice that is as creative as it is interpretative in delineating a play’s meaning. Thus, design helps in furthering the audience’s understanding of a play production. This paper interrogates the methods through which theatre designers bring out the intrinsic meaning(s) of a play through their designs using the March 2014 production of Esiaba Irobi’s Hangmen Also Die at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka as a case study.