A Room divider
To deal with the theme of love, Lorca makes the characters transform their external appearance in the three acts where the theater appears under the sand: the last part of act I and act II and III. These transformations are made with the help of a room divider, an element that also appears in Pirandello. In this way, Lorca allows the unfolding of characters, while showing the existence between them of a different relationship to that in the open air theater. The Director and the three Men pass through the room divider. Only Man 1 remains untransformed since there are no different facets of his feeling of love towards the Director, like Enrique. These changes show the true personality of the characters as well as the relationship between them. The scenario gives the possibility of this continuous change of forms.
Juliet and Red Naked Man
Lorca constructs a love story in two dimensions, a through Juliet he expresses the classic literacy of Shakespeare, while a transcendental one through the red naked man, that is also a metaphor of a sacrificing and loving Jesus Christ. Juliet is also the metaphor of the classic love story, but in the play, she is acted by a boy. That generates a controversial situation that makes the public enrage, showing their prejudices.
The Centurion
Represents the grotesqueness of the masculine.
Windows
The windows are radiographs and tell us that the viewer can see through them the hidden world of inner truth, as well as the subterranean intricacies of the theater, as if the interiority of the author were radiographed, both personally and professionally.
Elena
Elena represents the woman in her most negative aspect, incarnating death, appearing dressed in black. Also acts as the director’s wife, working as a perfect cover for his homosexuality.
