At the beginning of the play, we get an introduction which fulfills the audience's previous views of Cleopatra. Philo explains, "Nay but this dotage of our general's o'er flows the measure," and "to cool a gipsy's lust" lull the audience into a false sense of security before severely disrupting it and playing with their ability to make judgments. The juxtaposition of scenes contributes a significant amount to the complexity of Cleopatra's character. Also the combination of love and war is tightly knitted together to form an interesting contrast. The dramatic form reflects the chief thematic concerns of the play.
Movement is one of the elements used effectively within this performance, as the actors used all areas of the stage creatively to enhance the meaning of the play. Both abstract and realistic movement is used in the scenes. An example of abstract movement is seen when Romeo and Juliet first meet; in this scene they circled each other as they talked., Tthis in a way is abstract movement as it is not necessarily something people do in real life, but Zen Zen Zo used the circling to represent confronting an enemy and falling in love . Another example of movement is seen at the start of the performance, where the actors are getting ready for school. This element was used efficiently .to identify their actions.
Chikamatsu Vs. Shakespeare Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s tragedy, The Love Suicides at Soneszaki and Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet share many similarities. Both incorporate emotion to captivate the audience, and both utilize music to enhance the performances. The plot of Shakespeare’s play is similar to Chikamatsu’s in that the lovers are struggling to be with one another. Yet, The Love Suicides at Sonseki will leave the audience with the sense of having witnessed an actual event instead of a puppet theater show. The puppet play is written in an understandable language, where as Shakespearean plays are difficult to understand.
This change of theme from love to violence, acts like a twist in tale. The audience will be aroused by curiosity. They will be engrossed in the play once again, and will wait to see how this fight will affect the rest of the play. This is very crucial as back then, the audience could leave the theatre when they got bored. Shakespeare definitely didn’t want this to happen.
This, to the audience, will seem ridiculous and unnecessary creating a subtle sense of humour. Nearing the end of Act 2 we learn about Viola’s plans for her disguise in order to appear less vulnerable. She then goes on to say ‘thou shalt present me as an Eunuch to him’ which will yet again appear an overdramatic act to the audience. In act 3, Sir Toby Belch is introduced into the play. Shakespeare’s wit and word play used even for simply just the names of the characters can build up laughter.
William Shakespeare and Reginald Rose both use dramatic techniques to make the audience question the world they live in. They achieve this with how they change things like setting and tone which can be a massive eye opener to viewers (about the world we live in today) as the two plays reveal things like racism, justice and sexism. Both plays challenge audiences views on racism. Racism is a key part in both plays showing different societies and peoples (as individuals) views about other race, background and religion. Viewers watching this can see this seemingly made obvious feature of the play may then be able to see something similar happening in real life or relate to it.
Physical settings are important in tracking Lewis' journey in Cosi. Through in the play cosi , we experienced how the physical settings impact on the reader's emotions. A wide range of imaginations and illusions has been represent to the readers, and lots of tones colors and emotions has been filled in the structures. In the beginning of the play , the setting of a "burnt out theatre", "a heavy door" and the "darkness" achieved a horror, fear and shock mental effect to the readers, its also a foreshadowing for the general response to the dark and madness. Fire is a symbol setting in the act 1.
The key dramatic language of drama is presented by the director creating powerful symbolism to then build on the dramatic meaning. Throughout Cosi, the lighting effects are used as a symbol. In Act 1, Scene 1, the lights highlight Lewis’ entrance into a new world, where he then associates with patients who then, help him in his learning and self-development. At first, Lewis possesses a ‘pitch black’ perspective of the world, along with the other characters of Lucy and Nick. This is a representation of their modern beliefs that mix around the politics and the war.
Lighting contributes to the mood and atmosphere; which assess the effect on the set and the costume designs. With the lanterns, the lights should start with the colour of white and throughout the play; it would gradually start to get darker as it’s connecting to Blanche and her illusions growing. So the more Blanche fantasizes, the darker the light will get to set out the mood of the scene and the main character. Locations of action should be in the centre of the stage where the light follows them as known as profile spots, which concentrates when saying the scripts and is essential when acting monologues. The set appearance and style should account the requirements of the directional concept.
Romeo and Juliet LESSONS WITHIN THE PLAY Ryan Tomlinson Mrs. Bryans December 21, 2012 ENG2D Romeo and Juliet There are many lessons that are taught throughout Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. There is one larger lesson that is taught in Romeo and Juliet, which is, not to act with haste. Both families, the Capulets and Montagues, had to confront the realities of what lesson they have brought upon themselves. These acts of haste are when Romeo and Juliet decide to get married, Romeo’s decision to get revenge on Tybalt, and the influences of supporting characters. Love will affect people in many ways and make them do crazy things.