what she was trying to achieve‚ and for them to get some insight on what was actually happening 9. What does Weternbaker herself say about the setting of the play? 10. Is this a political play? Yes because it shows the political issues at the time‚ when convicts where getting sent over to Australia‚ and it shows the Georgian judicial system. 11. Do you think the play has relevance for an audience today‚ why? Yes because it makes you reflect on today’s social and
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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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In the article titled “College Is a Waste of Time and Money‚” Caroline Bird argues that students are in college for the wrong reasons. Bird talks about how people can find professional success without attending college. According to Bird‚ “In fact there is no real evidence that the higher income of college graduates is due to college… No one who has wrestled with the problem is prepared to attribute all of the higher income to the impact of college itself” (221). This means there is no research
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starting mixture of “lingos’‚ “Koorawoorung! Nyoongahs corroboree’n to a wetjala’s brass band!” Here the audience is presented with an incongruous image of Aboriginals trying to do the impossible – adjust and assimilate harmoniously to the traditional music of the controlling culture. From the humorous slang of Jimmy‚ “Oh Jesus‚ me bloody leg” to the formal‚ platitude – style speech of Neville‚ “in this small corner of the Empire” (4.5) the audience is challenged by the evident differentiation of status
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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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HU300-01 Arts and Humanities Final Project – Time Capsule Final Project – Time Capsule Since the creation of time‚ man has been inventing creations to enhance and abet the living experience of human beings with hopes of making daily tasks (domestic or work) more manageable while exerting less physical effort or for safety measures. This time capsule has been written to share with future generations some of the creations that were made near the end of the 20th Century and the beginning of 21st
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Inishmore is hysterically funny and deeply tragic at once‚ serving as a satirical dissection of terrorism‚ albeit through dark and shocking theatrical means. In 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
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Christmas time‚ and Nora is receiving the Christmas tree. From the start the reader realizes that Torvald and Nora are very different. Torvald playfully chastises Nora for spending money all the time‚ and Nora teases back that since he has the new job‚ she can spend money‚ especially for Christmas. The entire dialogue through this scene is very mushy and cannot be taken seriously as realistic dialogue. The reader can soon realize that this play has elements of both realistic and non realistic drama.
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English Renaissance drama grew out of the established Medieval tradition of the mystery and morality plays. These public spectacles focused on religious subjects and were generally enacted by either choristers and monks‚ or a town’s tradesmen (as later seen lovingly memorialized by Shakespeare’s ’mechanicals’ in A Midsummer Night’s Dream). At the end of the fifteenth century‚ a new type of play appeared. These short plays and revels were performed at noble households and at court‚ especially at
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Glossary of Literary terms – Drama Act-: A lengthy segment of a play‚ comprising several scenes. A major division in a play. Each act may have one or more scenes. Greek plays were performed as continuous wholes‚ with interpolated comment from the Chorus. Horace appears to have been the first to insist on a five-act structure. At some stage during the Renaissance the use of five acts become standard practice among French dramatists. Plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries have natural
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