The backdrop being an active background rather than the traditional painted scenery, and the seating arrangements of the audience made you feel fully experienced and immersed in the play. The use of a black box for the play was a great idea, because it gave focus to the backdrop; which to me was the center focus of the play, reminding us that this is just a daily occurrence. The play started in midafternoon at Feuf’s country home with her two friends Christina and Cindy. This scene is significant you learn that Fefu is a strong, independent woman, who doesn’t care what other people think about her. I would say the middle of the play is the most important because this is where you learn about Fefu’s friends. The characters are split up in different parts of the house, each one dealing with a different problem, from trying to understand themselves, to understanding life itself. This is where you start to figure out that each character is just a figment of Fefu’s imagination. Each character represents a different personality of hers. Which leads well to the end of the …show more content…
play. It is now nighttime and we know this because backdrop now shows a cloudy sky. The play concludes with Fefu shooting a white rabbit, proud of herself she goes on to show her friends and finding Julia wounded, one could say this scene symbolizes Fefu setting free the woman trapped inside, represented by Julia a woman who was trapped in her own mind. Choosing theatre to interpret this play had its advantages and disadvantages.
People my age don’t read much anymore, nor do they take the time to listen to things they don’t fully agree with, so by adding a political statement in a play was a great idea, because the audience members learn about he matter of hand subtly while being entertained. The disadvantage of this is some people might take this in the wrong way, one can take away from the political statement is that accepting violent, and aggressive traits (seen in Fefus character) of a person is alright. The responsibilities for the director, the cast, and crew is to get the point across, in the case of Fefu and her friends was to show you have to accept every part of you. This production did affect my feelings, because I never really gave that much thought that there’s is some many parts of yourself and how you need to learn to accept all of
them. I noticed a lot of things in the play that we talked about in class, including, the lighting, props, and costumes. I would have never understand the reason for the black box if we never discussed it in class. There was nothing different that I noticed from the textbook or from class that I saw in this play. I don’t either have a direct personal knowledge of the play, but I think that’s why it was so believe to me. Knowing nothing coming into it made Fefu’s character so real, it was like listing to a friend tell a story. All the actress did so well in that aspect, making me believe their stories really happened. Juile Petrasek who played Julia played her role so well, her monologue that she had gave me the chills. Nicole Romero the same when she broke the fourth wall with her monologue. Not only was Nicole great at being serious, but she was amazing at being comic relief. The play at the end was entertaining, initially going into it, I didn’t know I was going to receive an internal message within the play that states that you have to learn to accept yourself, because I you don’t you will just drive yourself mad. That being said the play was done very well, they had the lighting, props, and the backdrop set up was fantastic, you could tell they put a lot of hard work into it. The play was definitely worth doing, it held a great message. I think the story was confusing and hard to follow at times, but if you stayed for the talk back they made it clear for you.
Sometimes, cuts in a play obey to reasons regarding the stage capacity, or your budget. In the essay, we will choose our cuts based on the play only, as we consider it an interesting exercise that will surely help us understanding the play. We decided to read the play a couple of times, highlighting the elements we could cut, and after thinking carefully, these are the parts we would cut. We intended to keep it short, as not to alter the meaning of the play, or hinder any part of the plot, we focused on trimming parts that would not necessarily add up to the plot, but instead, are there to show the human parts of the play, these parts are important in their own right, of course, but in our cut, we focused on the plot, excuse us beforehand if we are too severe, and cut some parts we should have
It was good setting to get the attention from the audience and also a way to move around or change settings of the play. Although I love this play my small critic for this play was the players. Some others actors had understandable accents but others didn’t. For example, the brother of the servant his accent was confusing because he kept switching his accent from different country languages. This play was really nice it had a little of bit of everything drama, comedy, romance, betrayal. What like about this play it was how they used the dramatic structure the inciting incident and the climax. The inciting incident for this play of musical comedy murders of 1940 was guessing who the killer of the play was because there was tension building up not knowing who the murder was. The climax for this play would be for me finding out who was the murder and just being in shock how everything had change into a new scenario. Overall it was amazing show how it developed and how well an organized transition the play
The characters address the audience; the fast movement from scene to scene juxtaposing past and present and prevents us from identifying with particular characters, forcing us to assess their points of view; there are few characters who fail to repel us, as they display truly human complexity and fallibility. That fallibility is usually associated with greed and a ruthless disregard for the needs of others. Emotional needs are rarely acknowledged by those most concerned with taking what they maintain is theirs, and this confusion of feeling and finance contributes to the play's ultimate bleak mood.
In conclusion I think that the stage directions and dramatic irony are significant to the play, and without them there would be no need for a lot of the events that happen in the play.
Nervous to see the play, I was pleasantly surprised with the opening song of the show. The wondering of the blue-dressed choir opens up the play while explaining to us the premise of the Greensboro incident. This first scene immediately sets up the mood for the entire play. Although I found some of the following scenes to be dull due to whereas that there was a lot of talking but considering the fact that these scenes are important part of the play, I just wished they
The music and sound effects are in the same pont with what the author nedded to say in that play. In the smok and sword fight on the first act we thought will be a play where every body is confusing and fight each other. The phone ringing all the time and this help the actors to play around in the hury and action come up with rehearsal process. The purposes of the phone is any time we heart that something is going to happen, so we expectin to change the sequence in the play. Ringing the phone open a problem, hanging up the phone close the problem. Opening and shoutting the door of dressing room as a slamming it create for the audience understanding the flow of the show and leaves the flexibility as we see white and black to the performance. Crying with tears make the player dramatic, but afraid of discover which it trying to keep things together laughting and
As the play of Macbeth is revisited to be viewed by the world again, a Scottish tyrant betrays his friends for power while a 20th century dystopian leader slowly crumbles into insanity. But, the two men are one and the same. Created for two different audiences, the 2015 film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and the 2010 PBS TV play adaptation surprisingly bear several similarities and differences. Appealing to a more general audience, the film adaptation holds true to the original play in story, dialogue, and setting. Utilizing astounding settings and other historically accurate elements, the 2015 film starring Michael Fassbender allows Macbeth to flow as a real and thrilling story rather than an old and distant play, as the general public may have thought about the original work. Conversely, the play adaptation was presented as more theatrical and only kept the same dialogue
First impression of the play when I first walked in was one of confusion. The stage design was not distinguishable. I could not tell what was going on or what it was supposed to be. One thing I could
What I feel is one of the most important aspects of the play is the
1, scene 5 is an essential scene in the play. The main two themes are
Some of the most important themes of the play are shown in Act 1 Scene
...ith the lack of closure the author has paved many paths, making one unable to give a proper retelling of the play due to various interpretations. The play has also slyly inserted a philosophy on human life, the uncertainty and how it is a major part of human life is portrayed through this play. All these characteristic together make this play a very good play, it makes one want to live forever as to see what future generations would interpret the play as. In conclusion, this text is written to make the readers think and participate as active members in the reading of the play.
It’s pivotal for the first act to set up the story, the goal, and the tension. By the end of the current first 30 pages, it’s not entirely clear what this story is about, other than about surviving German occupation, but the story needs to find a unique hook to be
There are instances in plays that when omitted disturbs the plot line. These instances may be small scenes, short actions, exchanges between characters, or an entire act. Failure to include these scenes often leads to many faults in the play, the worst of which is incoherence in the plot and the destruction of the progress through it. Certain plays have deeply interwoven scenes, which with the removal of one affect the rest greatly. This can be seen in William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. In particular the first act of the play reveals its course. Without this first act and its components, the play would begin in confusion. It might be redundant to say that one cannot do without the first act of all plays, but this play in particular is inseparable with it. The first act shows character interactions with the setting, reveals the motives of various characters, and foreshadows future events.
take it as fantasy and not reach the true depth of the play. Brecht shocks the viewer by making the events and actions in the play "strange and abstract" this contrasts with dramatic plays where the audience sympathises and relates to the characters of the play. The theme throughout the play is natural justice versus class justice.