Mapping power, isolation, and hysteria on stage
In Puritan Salem, touch and intimacy are socially policed. That means proxemics becomes dramatic action: invading someone’s space reads as power, threat, accusation, and control. Use this simulator to practise writing concrete staging explanations (where people stand, how far apart, and what that makes the audience understand).
Set your exam board to see what your examiner expects when you write about staging and proxemics.
What happens: John and Elizabeth eat dinner in their farmhouse. The tension of John’s affair hangs between them.
Exam focus: proxemics + staging notes