It is a collection of 3 stories each with a dark twist and an intro and an outro. The script is based around storytelling with narrators in each story as well as characters. We chose Kneehigh as our Practitioner as we could use Kneehighs use of audience interaction in our play. For example, in the intro, an idea was that we could all be dotted around different areas of the room when saying our lines and delivering them to a particular member of the audience. Our group work together well to produce a coherent style and are not afraid to experiment, take chances and eventually change or reject ideas which is an important factor in performing Kneehigh Theatre.
Candido explains in his essay the significance of these characters and how they affect the scenes. Candido starts off his essay talking about how the language used in The Country Wife is full of references to plays and the theater. For example, Margery is constantly talking about plays and asking to go to one. She also calls Harcourt a “playerman.” The character Sparkish exhibits his love for plays throughout The Country Wife. Candido says that all of these references “[direct] our attention to the art of drama.” Furthermore, he says that the use of masquerade is an attempt to conceal one’s inner self.
These varied values are presented by the characters as it assisting the audience to consider all views. This is revealed when Roy discusses the purpose of Cosi Fan Tutee after Cherry asks what it’s about, he replies ‘about testing how true your love is’. He reveals his own position in the topic as he slates, ‘Don Alfonso is proved right’. Nowra’s technique a ‘play within a play’ is an effective tool as it acts as a catalyst for the characters to have a discussion on the topic of love and fidelity including people who aren’t in the play such as Lucy and Nick ensuring we see their evolving relationships. Nowra exhibits the major conception in the 1970s of free love, this questions a person’s fidelity as Lucy and Nick are having sex “She’s having sex with me, and sleeping with you”, as Lewis finds out he questions Lucy by quoting “love is like an Arabian phoenix”.
How could the personal and social tensions between characters in the plays you have studied be expressed on stage? In your answer, refer to the performance styles, techniques and conventions that you could use in staging two texts set for your study? The personal and social tensions in Stolen by Jane Harrison and Neighbourhood Watch by Lally Katz can be expressed on stage numerous ways through the use of varying theatrical techniques, performance styles and conventions. The two plays are a microcosm of the world shown through the environment, small community and its set of characters; and are similar in the way that they portray the alienation and isolation of characters in the modern world. The play delves into and reveals the social and
Be sure to discuss where/how the character starts out, what events/experiences cause the character to transform, and where/how the character ends up. What does the character learn about himself/herself, others, and/or the society? 2. In The Crucible, which scene is the most significant in terms of Miller’s intended themes/messages/morals for the play? Explain why you believe the scene to be the most significant, which themes it illustrates, and how the scene illustrates these themes.
This essay explores the way J.B Priestley presents family relationships through his use of language in the play, “An Inspector Calls". The term relationship infers the connection between things and emotional feelings between people. The familial relationships between the characters reflect some of these issues that would have impacted a middle class family such as the Birling family at this time. Priestley deliberately set his play in 1912 because the date represented an era when all was very different from the time he was writing. 1912 was a time where young people were expected to respect and be polite to their elders.
“If that fella’ll work for thirty cents, I’ll work for twenty-five” (Steinbeck) this quote shows how desperate people are to get work and how the owner don’t care about the. An example of modern slavery and modern disposable people in our world today is Siri, a child slave from Thailand. At the age of only fourteen years old she was sold by her parents, because they needed money, to a brothel. After one year Siri’s “desire to escape the brothel are breaking down and acceptance and resignation are taking their place.” (Kevin Bales 1). Siri is mistreated and forced into prostitution.
The Depression hit women, like other minority groups in American society, similarly harsh because of that payrolls of many communities and private companies were open only to males. The main role of women during the Great Depression was that of the homemaker. Some women had gone through college level education and, like their male counterparts, were having a difficult time of finding employment. Those with families had the task of keeping their family together, as the traditional view of motherhood role, when the principle moneymaker of the family was out of work. However, some women joined the work force and would do jobs that men previously had held.
Because of discrimination against women rights, and how society view women is nothing much than their sex slaves, Elizabeth suffered from great loss of family and love. From her experience of giving a birth to a dead baby to the point of becoming a sex worker, it perishes her hope of living in a comfortable and pleasing life. The absence of love for Elizabeth causes her to suffer from grief and catastrophe. Society against women rights prevents Elizabeth to speak up for her tragedy because she has no place and no one to blame to. Instead, she has to endure all the horrifying loss from both society and
Men are also victimized into emigrating and selling their labor force. Young African women and children are being sent to Europe and the Middle East for commercial sex exploitation. It’s unfortunately a very common method of taking victims from their homeland to a place that they know nothing about, making them now even more isolated and lost. They are often misled by false promises of steady employment as “housemaids, shopkeepers, seamstresses, nannies or hotel service positions and attendants in the major European countries and are eventually forced into prostitution on getting to the destination” (Africa Files – Ade Adenekan). These unfortunate victims have their passports and other documents that would otherwise allow them to travel are taken once they arrive in their destination area so they have no chance of getting on the next plane, boat, or car to get back home.