A director's job is visual storytelling. They have to find ways to tell the story to the actors, staff and audience using pictures. A director that ignores any of their potential visual palette (
Aristotle's spectacle) should be taken out and shot. The visual palette includes costumes, sets, props, special effects, lighting, etc.
Historically Shakespeare told his story on a blank stage, with little set to distract the audience from the action. I am doing the same. But with less set (and no applicable lighting until more than half way through the play), attention must be spent on the other elements, especially costumes.
