DRAMA ESSAY STOLEN BY JANE HARRISON INDIVIDUAL PERSONAL RESPONSE Discuss how the scenes you performed are uniquely Australian. You are to include a description of how the content and dramatic forms and conventions used in your group performance help to convey a uniquely Australian message. You may wish to include specific quotes from your scenes to justify your answers. In my group performance‚ my group members and I chose two scenes from the play ‘Stolen’ that we thought appropriately conveyed
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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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Christal Lawrence Professor Mason English 102-42 November 12‚ 2014 Trifles Former John Wright has been murdered. While he was asleep in the middle of the night someone strung a rope around his neck. That someone may have been his wife‚ Minnie Wright. Published in 1920 based on a short story called “A jury of her peers” build around a narrative strongly feminist. Susan Glaspell got the inspiration for Trifles from her real life visit to the kitchen of Margaret Hossack whose trial for the murder
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OUR COUNTRYS GOOD 1.Summary Our country’s good is a play about convicts and royal marines send to Australia in the late 1780’s as part of the first penal colony there. The play sees Second Lieutenant Ralph Clark’s attempt to put on a production of ‘The Recruiting officer’ with the convicts. The play shows the class system and shows themes such as sexuality‚ social class and punishment. 2. When was our country’s good written? 1998 3. When did Weternbaker write this play? 1998 4. What did
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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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Bless me father for I have sinned... You see‚ lately I’ve been having impure thoughts about… (He trails off‚ his eyes red and full of tears.) Um…actually‚ I haven’t been doing very well lately. This is…the first time I’ve been in a church since my mum died. (He looks down‚ whispering) I think about her every day. I just...I wonder what she would say to me right now if she could see me and see how I’ve been living. (Pause) And I wonder if she knows that most days‚ I fall short of being the person
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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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ENG 200 Ms. Aslop Maggie Fowler Sunday‚ October 26‚ 2014 Natural Law and Man “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion‚ or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech‚ or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble‚ and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” — United States Constitution‚ Amendment I Almost every United States’ citizen has heard or is familiar with with the first amendment to the United States
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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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2011 HSC Question How are taboos used in black comedy to challenge and confront the audience‚ and make them laugh? In your answer‚ refer to study and experience of TWO of the texts set for study Black Comedy‚ as defined within both an Aristotelian-cathartic model and through a Freudian psychological perspective‚ aims to allow its audience to bypass the mind’s censor and to allow release of otherwise socially impermissible emotions on issues that are of a dark or macabre nature. It is a form
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