I must be able to shape, interpret and use the elements of drama to create particular effects for an audience. To enhance conflict I decided to place Ruby and Ray upstage so that they have a closer proximity with the audience. I decided to create many pauses between Sylvie and Ray’s dialogue to redefine the conflict. For example when Sylvie says, ‘Ray…? Where’s Ruby?’ and Ray responds with, ‘I don’t know, Sylvie! I don’t know!’ I decided to place the actors so that they’re facing each other with a pause after Ray’s dialogue to show the climatic moment. I decided for Sylvie to imagine the mannequin of Ruby is outside the front under the street lamp so she is looking out into the audience enhancing the conflict revolving around the missing mannequin which she says. ‘The mannequin! She’s not under the street lamp. Somebody’s taken her. Who could be that cruel?’ Sylvie is looking out frantically into the audience making the audience feel uncomfortable and uneasy enhancing the conflict of this missing mannequin. One last way in which conflict is shown is through the body part of Ruby being sent in a parcel and how they don’t know the answers to who sent it and why and how it event got there reinforcing the invasion of a safe neighbourhood. For…
The set being compacted towards the edges of the stage with a large open area allowed the setting of the play to easily present a small country town, iconic locations within a town on the edges of the stage gave the ever present vision of a small town. The large open area in the centre of the stage was adaptable and used during various scenes, although most notably, the outback scenes presenting a large open space opening the space compared to other scenes and indicating the environment base of the play. The use of footage of sand falling in-between scenes represented that time consistently progressed within the play, with each event leading to the larger events growing in impact on the play. Due the complex stage design spotlighting was used to draw focus to the performers, coloured lighting was also incorporated for ambient effects during scenes. Blocking on the set was made minimal to avoid wandering into separate scene locations although using spotlights and lighting position as well as props such as empty chairs were used to emphasise divide in characters with character interacting closely in aggressive and intermit moments. An example of conflict causing both intimacy and aggressive monuments is during Alan attempting to persuade the character Veronica a member of the historical society whom was involved in pro-acknowledgement campaigning to join him after having turned the town against her, a chair is left empty as a divide between the character while Alan attacks her ideals however once Alan decides a more friendly approach they sit beside each other as Alan attempts to persuade her to side with him. During this scene conversation between the characters was fairly hostile and consider of Alan denouncing Veronica’s ideals as she struggled to fight back against Alan’s judgement, this resulted in Alan looking down on her and placing himself…
The play itself is not about reality, but it is about the insights that form the shape and style of the play. The play itself is a representation of how little they can peer out their curtains to the outside world. Ruby herself is occasionally referred to in the play as the curtain girl. This could be a sublime reference to the little Ray and Sylvie can interact with the outside world. When character Dawn says “I’m not a real person, but I’m going to become one” reinforces the discrepancy of the neighbours, and in their desperation for the truth behind their daughter’s disappearance, they construct a personal reality to solve their scarring mystery. The concept of this being a play within a play is one of a popular opinion. Ruby being the curtain girl could also alludes to the physical curtains of a performance and the idea of the world of Ruby Moon is an invitation into the world of the imagination: that of the director, the plays two characters and alternately our own personal experiences. The way Ruby Moon shapes and styles the play, makes is an absurd piece of theatre, and this amplifies the exclusivity of Australian Contemporary…
Sitting through the gritty horrors of reality weighs heavily on a person’s conscience, and is not easily forgotten. The biggest burden of the night was watching the underdogs lose. There was no victorious win, surprise comeback, or happy ending. The audience sat through two suicides, three murders, and two hours of heartache and pain, while knowing that there is no light at the end of the tunnel for any of the characters involved. If anything, the longer the play went on, the more morose it became. This left little hope for the audience, who exited a play, and entered into an eerily-identical…
In this book Ruby may be the victim but she causes many consequences for Bri, Mick, Aunty Joan and even the Fish and Chip shop owner Joseph.…
In contrast, within Scene 8 of Act one the play also influences the audience’s response to the characters and events by dealing with the theme of death. The confrontational approach of death, as quoted in italics “Bridie slaps Sheila” then followed by “you’re alive today because of me, and don’t you ever forget it”, through the stage directions, and dialogue this particular scene unravels the sudden realisation of death that the two protagonists faced as their journey was hitting a rough hit, also as Sheila states with a more saddened les aggressive tone “I hated those coffins.. I wasn’t going to see you in…
The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare follows two ill-fated lovers who marry against their feuding families’ wishes. In the tragedy, Juliet makes several impulsive decisions. The Nurse sticks by her side and tries to help with the consequences of Juliet’s hasty decisions. Yet, when the hard times progress, the Nurse feels the need to share her feelings about the predicament. The Nurse uses her motherly instincts to protect Juliet; yet, Juliet misperceives the advice as betrayal and is unaware that these suggestions encourage her own well-being.…
This play is a tale of two lovers, tied together by death due to ancient family hostility. Throughout the play, this couple, madly in love, made every effort to see each other. The love-struck pair secretly wed and planned to escape Verona together. Despite their families’ many quarrels, true love prevailed; they died in each other’s embraces and the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets came to an end. In Romeo and Juliet, a sweetly painful drama, Shakespeare uses metaphors, oxymorons, and foreshadowing to convey powerful emotions.…
Every discovery of the world is a rebirth and a reawakening because it offers renewed perceptions of the world around us. Coral is married to Roy had a son who died in the Vietnam War, the Vietnam war serves a dramatic purpose exportingexploring coral’s loss. Coral experiences extreme grief at the loss of her ‘son’; however she experiences a profound rejuvenation of life through Tom’s play – “The Stranger On The Shore” which uses the play within a play technique that Gow uses to show his audiences the effect that plays have on human emotions which subsequently leads to their revival / reawakening. that lead to re-discovery. This This Pprovides a renewed understanding of themselves and others around. Tom’s imminent death encapsulates the play’s major thematic concern and determines its direction. The play opens with the Shakespearean play A Midsummer Night Dreams in which Tom plays the role of Puck. Just as Puck directs the dance of the fairies in the school performance so too does Tom who channels the play’s action. His discovery of two characters with strongly opposing views: Coral and Gwen is reflected by their re-evaluation of their lives. About life Coral seems to have immersed herself in loss claiming rhetorically that, ‘It’s everywhere isn’t it? In…
The play itself revolves around true events and presents to us what happened and what both children and family went through and…
Heimann states that “We had often felt that we, as most Londeners, were running around and missing some kind of balance in our everyday lives.” This is reflected whether the victims are close to the person who has died or a known figure. The play has received a very strong and positive feedback which then made Heimann and Petterle to make the decision of developing…
The stage chosen for our production was slightly slanted downstage, allowing the audience to clearly see the movements of actors. The stage design was rectangular, however, instead of the usual straight edge of the downstage wall, a semicircular design was used. This design allowed the actors more space to move. A large curtain separated the rectangular and the semicircular structures of the stage, which provided space for an actor to act their soliloquy, while behind the curtain, the stage would be remodelled for the next scene, which was signified by the drawing of the curtains.…
In my time as the Dean of the University of Queensland, I have grown to learn the true reason for educating our children: to train them to take their place as a constructive, thinking member of our society.…
Furthermore, in more than one parts of this play, one can note how intuition and second-sense play a major role. Intuition emphasizes the close bond between humans and nature and how their senses were acute before they were contaminated by the modern way of life. At the beginning of the play when the three boys discuss the arrival of the father, they say that they knew he was not dead because they could sense he is near:…
No one should ever underestimate how important silence really is in our lives. It is very important to be silent during performances, no matter what the performance is for. If it is for speech, singing, Broadway, etc., you still need to be silent. No matter what you think, silence is a key role to many things in our lives.…