Ruby Moon
Ruby Moon by Sam Stopforth
Ruby Moon written by Matt Cameron in 2003 is a presentational non-realistic, contemporary Australian drama with representational elements in reference to its development of characters. The style is also that of a psychodrama as it exposes the gargantuan holes in Ray and Sylvie’s state of mind as the story unfolds their psychological flaws become more and more conspicuous to the audience. It also takes on the style of an absurdist drama as this means that a realistic lifestyle is portrayed in the text although in an unrealistic or exaggerated (presentational) way.
As the director and dramaturge for this production, I have chosen an exert from scene three as an example which include the characters of Sid and Sylvie.
This exert was chosen as I believe it presents clear references of the three underlying themes of the play while also staying true to the festivals focus of Australian society. One of these is that the climate of fear and mistrust in contemporary times and the increasing distance, suspicion, doubt and paranoia it can lead to within communities and neighborhoods. This idea is shown in the scene when Sid asks Sylvie “are you going to hurt me?” In which Sylvie responds, “Why would you think I’d hurt you?” To which Sid replies, “Well why else would you be here!” Here Cameron is displaying to us the full embodied sense of distrust among these neighbours and commenting on the state of paranoia that these characters would had to have reached to achieve this. In contemporary Australian society today the country and even world are a lot more aware of the possible dangers that might be lurking around every corner and that the elderly today believe the world is so much more dangerous nowadays then it might have been ten, twenty or even fifty years ago closer to their generation. But the only reason we even know about these horrible conflicting worse case scenarios is because of the media. The media and technology is advancing and
Ruby Moon written by Matt Cameron in 2003 is a presentational non-realistic, contemporary Australian drama with representational elements in reference to its development of characters. The style is also that of a psychodrama as it exposes the gargantuan holes in Ray and Sylvie’s state of mind as the story unfolds their psychological flaws become more and more conspicuous to the audience. It also takes on the style of an absurdist drama as this means that a realistic lifestyle is portrayed in the text although in an unrealistic or exaggerated (presentational) way.
As the director and dramaturge for this production, I have chosen an exert from scene three as an example which include the characters of Sid and Sylvie.
This exert was chosen as I believe it presents clear references of the three underlying themes of the play while also staying true to the festivals focus of Australian society. One of these is that the climate of fear and mistrust in contemporary times and the increasing distance, suspicion, doubt and paranoia it can lead to within communities and neighborhoods. This idea is shown in the scene when Sid asks Sylvie “are you going to hurt me?” In which Sylvie responds, “Why would you think I’d hurt you?” To which Sid replies, “Well why else would you be here!” Here Cameron is displaying to us the full embodied sense of distrust among these neighbours and commenting on the state of paranoia that these characters would had to have reached to achieve this. In contemporary Australian society today the country and even world are a lot more aware of the possible dangers that might be lurking around every corner and that the elderly today believe the world is so much more dangerous nowadays then it might have been ten, twenty or even fifty years ago closer to their generation. But the only reason we even know about these horrible conflicting worse case scenarios is because of the media. The media and technology is advancing and