with the elements on stage can also heavily imply meaning – a doll standing on a well-lit stage with happy nursery rhymes would have different air than the same doll standing on a shadowy stage‚ a haunting Greensleeves playing in the background. In Ruby Moon‚ multi-media plays an essential role in lending mood to the audience member – the recurring use of song and sound effects‚ and contrasting well-lit scenes and shadowy‚ unrealistic ones allows for an ever-evolving space. I found‚ as an audience member
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“The Moon Cannot Be Stolen” Waking up every morning is a chance to begin a brand new day. Every day‚ people take for granted what Mother Nature has given the world. Beginning with religion‚ people around the world thank a higher- power by worshiping or practicing in ways that end up appreciating the life that is made each day. However‚ religion isn’t what makes up this world it is what is being thanked that needs to be recognized. In a short story called “The Moon Cannot Be Stolen” the moral of
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Ruby Moon Essay In class we are performing ‘Ruby Moon’‚ the scene that we have chosen is scene 6 which is between Sonny Jim and Sylvie‚ this scene establishes the broken and psychotic world they inhabit and contextualises the grief felt by the protagonists. It demonstrates the dark and twisted atmosphere of the characters world and shows the audience the irrational state in which they live. All throughout the play we sense the important values present in Australian ideas that are represented in
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surrounding world to ultimately impact audiences. Our unit of drama including Matt Cameron’s Ruby Moon and Jane Harrison’s Stolen does exactly this‚ but more specifically reflects on contemporary Australian culture and events. This combined with our experiential learning proved that theatre indeed is a mirror to society. Ruby Moon’s depiction of suburbia and its “dark underbelly that lurks beneath
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frightening view of who we are. How are playwrights able to do this in Ruby Moon and Stolen? The frightening view of who we are is explored by Matt Cameron’s Ruby Moon and Jane Harrison’s Stolen‚ where the contemporary Australian theatrical practice is used to explore dark issues. The play Ruby Moon is a response to the current epidemic within Australian society; the fear of losing a child‚ and is concerned with life in suburbia‚ and Stolen by Jane Harrison is concerned with Indigenous experience in Australia
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influenced him to write Ruby Moon? * Matt Cameron is an Australian playwright who is known for writing Absurdist play. He puts an absurdist lens on things and distorts the everyday. Cameron has a lot of recurring elements in his work. Some of these things are the use of doors‚ disturbing images‚ and the co-existence of comedy and dark moments. In his play Ruby Moon‚ Cameron holds up a lens to suburbia‚ presenting it as distorted and nightmare-ish. * Matt Cameron wrote Ruby Moon in response to a
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Ruby Moon is a gothic fairytale‚ with the play repeatedly drawing on the familiar tale of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. A parent’s worst nightmare is to have lost their child‚ especially if the neighbour is assumed to have been involved. “The child randomly taken from our midst is an all-too-common tragedy which threatens us in a deeply primal way” (Matt Cameron). In using this element of a crippled fairy-tale with the added form of heightened naturalism‚ there is the constant essence of fears of contemporary
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The texts studied in class‚ Matt Cameron’s Ruby Moon prove to have great potential for being performed on a thrust stage. When presented with a space such as this‚ it allows the director to be exposed to a vast array of ideas‚ conventions and concepts that would not be effective on a proscenium arch stage. Through this space‚ the director is able to break through all traditional styles of classic shoe box theatre; creating a unique experience for the audience as opposed to just a spectacle. It cracks
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Australian contemporary plays display unique expression within the theatre by implementing various elements of production‚ performance style techniques and are presented within Matt Cameron’s Ruby Moon‚ with displays of distorted reality. The play touches into Australian Gothic Theatre‚ and is an absurd piece uses various staging‚ and blocking techniques to differentiate the play from other dramas. The script within itself is quiet abstract and a sense of isolation dominates as Ray and Sylvie only
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story “The Ruby” by Ruben Dario‚ we learn about characters like Puck and the chemist Fremy‚ and the old wise gnome‚ but is that all that lies within “The Ruby”? The real message being told is not how interesting and bizzare the gnomes are for having this obsession over legitimate and illegitimate rubies‚ but how science can not solve all problems we encounter‚ the idea that positivism is a hoax. Despite sounding so off topic as opposed to what the short story seems to be about‚ “The Ruby” by Ruben
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