The play I chose to see was “ The Woolgatherer” by William Mastrosimone. It was directed by Neill Hartley and preformed at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. When you first walk in you are shocked at how intimate the staging is. There were only about thirty seats that started a few feet away from the stage. The stage design was of a south Philadelphia walk in apartment that was very meager. There was no stage changing except for the lighting. There was very minimal belongings in Rose’s apartment. There were also just two characters in the play Rose and Cliff. Everything about the play was very personal and small. The illusion in this play brought me close into Rose and Cliff’s relationship. I sat in the second row and I felt like I was sitting at the kitchen table with them and was involved in everything they were going thru. The staff did a very good job in making illusions such as in the concluding scene where Cliff and Rose are arguing because Cliff becomes interested in Roses closet because she is so secretive about what she keeps in there. He starts accusing Rose thinking that she is keeping a man in the closet dead or alive. I know that when he swung the closet door open I thought I was going to see a dead body hanging there but instead you see a closet full of sweaters. The illusions in this play kept me interested and made the play different than any other love story between two opposite people.