Totally over you Mark Ravenhill
Offer a critical analysis of the themes explored in your group's designated play/performance. Support your answer with reference to illustrations from the text and relevant critical opinion.
Mark Ravenhill is a modern playwright who although writes for an adult audience, also focuses on writing plays for teenagers. Ravenhill believes that young people should also be given the opportunity to relate to something that they might be experiencing. In his opinion the teenage years are very critical in a young person’s life which is why he creates plays that could some way or another help them to discover their identity and inspire them to find their inner self. The main focus of this essay will be to look at the play Totally Over You (2003), discover the aspects which make the play relevant to a teenage audience, how has this reflected on the language, the style and the themes of the play and finally to discuss the general decision which affected our group’s final performance of Totally Over You as a whole.
Totally Over You is the very first play that Ravenhill writes for his teenage audience, set in a school premises. His main focus throughout the play was to create the biggest possible impact on his spectators who are or who will perhaps experience love for the first time. He achieves his purpose through the innocence and the unstable emotions of the characters that he creates, illustrating their love relationships with their partners. Mark Ravenhill strongly believes that one of his most important rules for a playwright is to make a play interesting and exciting. He also considers the fact that young people relate better to a play that contains a lot of comedy; this perhaps inspired him to create the comical
Mark Ravenhill is a modern playwright who although writes for an adult audience, also focuses on writing plays for teenagers. Ravenhill believes that young people should also be given the opportunity to relate to something that they might be experiencing. In his opinion the teenage years are very critical in a young person’s life which is why he creates plays that could some way or another help them to discover their identity and inspire them to find their inner self. The main focus of this essay will be to look at the play Totally Over You (2003), discover the aspects which make the play relevant to a teenage audience, how has this reflected on the language, the style and the themes of the play and finally to discuss the general decision which affected our group’s final performance of Totally Over You as a whole.
Totally Over You is the very first play that Ravenhill writes for his teenage audience, set in a school premises. His main focus throughout the play was to create the biggest possible impact on his spectators who are or who will perhaps experience love for the first time. He achieves his purpose through the innocence and the unstable emotions of the characters that he creates, illustrating their love relationships with their partners. Mark Ravenhill strongly believes that one of his most important rules for a playwright is to make a play interesting and exciting. He also considers the fact that young people relate better to a play that contains a lot of comedy; this perhaps inspired him to create the comical