Other small subtleties Dziedzic worked in include John Proctor’s transformation from community member to ostracized outsider. Proctor, played by Whishaw, wears a jumper, while the rest of the men in the community wear jackets, setting an initial tone. “Although I created this concept that was quite limiting, within that concept it was possible for me to create quite varied and detailed images of this community of a society,” he says.

Though he made collages of timely images as a stand-in for sketches, his main image of inspiration came from 18th-century Spanish painter Francisco Goya’s “The Third of May 1808 in Madrid,” which shows a man in a white shirt, hands raised, surrounded by darkly clothed soldiers. “That is how I saw it,” Dziedzic says. “Prisoners wear white, sort of this lighter spirit, and all the others comes in these very dark coats. The white shirts, from the previous act — they become dark. Maybe the audience doesn’t notice it, but at the same time you don’t see any other white elements other than the shirt of the prisoners, which are much lighter than anything else in the play. It makes him even more fragile.”