This critique is based on a theatrical performance entitled‚ ‘Ruby Moon’. Ruby Moon is a playwright written by Matt Cameron. This play is directed by Christopher Ling. There are only two actors in the play: the main actor is Alex Chua portraying as Ray Moon‚ and the main actress is Davina Goh portraying as Sylvie Moon. The play was performed at Pentas 2‚ KLPAC on the 1st of March‚ 2013. In my opinion‚ the main theme of the play is acceptance. Ray Moon and Sylvie Moon’s daughter went missing and
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus can be interpreted as a chilling warning of the dangers of scientific overreaching and ambition. Mary Shelley was already aware of the works of scientists such as Erasmus Darwin and was being influenced by writers such as Byron when‚ at “the age of nineteen‚ she achieved the quietly astonishing feat of looking beyond them and creating a lasting symbol of the perils of scientific Prometheanism” (Joseph‚ 1998‚ p‚ xiii). The fact that Shelley parallels
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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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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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Tuesdays with Morrie In-Class Essay “Love is how you stay alive” (Albom 133). This was a quote in Tuesdays with Morrie. It was one of many that I made connections with people in my own life. People that I have looked up to for wisdom and relief that everything is going to be okay. Morrie was a man with good morals‚ and he believed that people need to devote themselves to their community and their self in order to have a meaning of life. Throughout the book‚ I believed the theme was about knowing
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My Thursday with Tuesday with Morrie Christina Koo 古晓娜 10321029 Dec.30 2012 Our Fear of Death Life is a class‚ from the day we came to the day we leave. In this class‚ we learn to learn‚ learn to live‚ learn to accept relationships‚ learn to face death‚ and learn to adapt to this long and fancy journey of life. Since our childhood‚ we constantly wonder what our futures will be. Our future life style‚ future career‚ the coming deterioration
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Emily James Second Tuesday with Morrie Mitch goes to visit Morrie for the second time. Morrie is becoming less and less indepentdent every time Mitch goes to see him. His nurse now needs to help him with going to the the bathroom. Morrie is having a hard time waking up and doing everything that he used to be able to do with out being in pain. Mitch questions him and says why don’t you just give up so you wont have to be in pain anymore. Morrie tells him that he shouldn’t dwell to much on his physical
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Tuesdays with Morrie is a phenomenal book. Lately I have been too busy to read books‚ so I have skimmed them‚ but when I started to read this book‚ I could not put it down. A strong student-teacher relationship is really unknown these days. In most instances it is a US against THEM mentality with the students being the US and the teachers being the THEM. In an education setting this can occur‚ when this wall is thrown up‚ there are too many obstacles to try and overcome. I liked this book for
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Tuesdays with Morrie is an inspirational book about a dying professor‚ Morrie Schwartz‚ and his former student Mitch Albom. Morrie learns that he has Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)‚ Lou Gehrig’s disease and knows he is going to die. When Mitch hears about Morrie he decides to get in contact with him after sixteen years of absence. When they reunite Morrie teaches Mitch about so many of life’s lessons in the last fourteen weeks of his life. Morrie and Mitch meet on Tuesdays to discuss love
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Tuesdays with Morrie LIST OF CHARACTERS Major Characters Morrie Schwartz - The novel is centered around him; Morrie is Mitch’s former college professor who was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gherig’s disease); he meets with Mitch in his home every Tuesday to teach him about the meaning of life. Mitch Albom- Morrie’s former student; he has since become a journalist and leads a very fast paced life; finds Morrie after hearing he is sick on "ABC’s Nightline" and visits him every Tuesday. Minor Characters
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