Australian playwrights use a variety of styles‚ techniques and conventions to present images on the stage that provoke and challenge their audiences. Discuss with reference to your study and experience of the plays you have studied. The Australian playwrights studied this year have used a variety of styles‚ techniques and conventions‚ presenting images which provoke and challenge audiences. The Removalists by David Williamson and No Sugar by Jack Davis‚ despite the different contexts‚ are concerned
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As the curtain opens‚ the music will reflect the depression of Mrs Popov and that we are in Russia (perhaps using some famous Russian folk tune integrated into the overture). Mrs. Popov is standing looking out of her window (right stage). We see the interior of a victorian country home. Up center is a large painting covered with a black drape so you don’t see the whole image of the man. Mrs. Popov is a beautiful woman in her thirties‚ fighting back tears. In comes her fuddy duddy servant named Babalu
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Matt Cameron’s play Ruby Moon addresses Australian cultural issues‚ as well as the characters’ personal issues and concerns. How are these issues and concerns made engaging and challenging for an audience? Refer to study and workshop Matt Cameron’s play Ruby Moon is an engaging and episodic play that employs Australian cultural issues as well as character issues and concerns. These techniques are used effectively through the freedom of practitioners in staging and characterisation
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individual’s religious practices. This amendment is where the popular interpretation “Separation of church and state” comes from. There is a constant battle of government made laws versus divine laws‚ which can be seen throughout history‚ even in Sophocles’ play‚ Antigone‚ the character Antigone says “… I will bury him myself./ And even if I die in the act‚ that death will be glory./ I will lie with the one I love and loved by him—/ an outrage sacred to the gods! I have longer/ to please the dead than please
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addition‚ Neil LaBute’s The Shape of things is not overtly comic but rather the idea of an art major shaping a person as an object is an absurd one‚ confronting the audience through the humiliation and subsequent suffering of the protagonist. The plays studied deal with a paradox; how can the subject of death‚ violence to humans or animals‚ sexual perversion‚ social dysfunction and sexual dysfunction possibly be comic? Black Comedy deals with “what is often uncomfortable or supressed‚” and the subsequent
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The Origins of Drama: an Introduction The word drama comes from the Greek meaning “to act‚ do or perform”‚ and it is in the several subtle and diverse meanings of “to perform” that drama can be said to have begun. All communities accept that their later drama has roots in pre-history. Anthropologists have shown that primitive societies used (and in certain cases still use) role-playing in teaching the codes and behaviour required to live and survive in that society; for example‚ to teach
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producers add more drama and conflict tothe plot to make it more appealing to their target of viewers‚ this does not mean that they cannot stick to the core theme of the story. Although Maurier’s “The Birds” and Hitchcock’s The Birds have similar plot structures‚ the short story version is more entertaining because of lack of romance‚ more concise beginning‚ and ambiguous ending. There is a gathering of external plot points added to The Birds film. For starters‚ The Birds is more of a romance
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Feminist drama Trifles is seen as an example of early feminist drama‚ because it is two female characters’‚ Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale’s‚ ability to sympathize with the victim’s wife‚ Minnie‚ and so understand her motives‚ that leads them to the evidence against her‚ while the men are blinded by their cold‚ emotionless investigation of material facts. The female characters find the body of a canary‚ which had its neck wrung‚ killed in the same way as the deceased (John Wright)‚ thus leading them to
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Caged Bird By Maya Angelou A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill
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ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE DRAMA The dramatic activity in England took its rise‚ as did the drama of the Greeks‚ from religion; it was in origin distinctly a creation of the church. The church was everything for the Middle Ages:- rest for the weary‚ solace for the afflicted‚ bread for the hungry and succour for the helpless.The church was indeed the schoolz the meeting .place‚ the centre of art and above all of amusement and entertainment. It was ready and eager to provide for the people delight
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