My Response to the play

I quiet enjoyed reading the text “Rainbow’s Ending”.

Here is a brief summary of the play:

The story is about two giants, the world is peaceful, quiet and happy, until the giants have an argument over who is bigger, and have an eating competition. They eat anything and everything they can find, as they eat their way through the country. The rest of the country becomes helpless, dirty and noisy. Until one day the giants return and everything becomes a better place again!

The group, in which I was in, came up with many imaginative ideas, for the particular scenes in which we worked on. I very much liked the idea of the superpowers of the two giants in the story, which the author Noel Greig wrote. We used his ideas from the text to create our own ideas.

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In scene 1 we used a lot of Physical theatre. We had the Sun, Empire State Building, Post Office Tower, trees, and the river. I particularly liked the way which we had four people being the river when it came to the lines “……………it was a sunny day the trout were almost queuing up to get themselves hooked” at this point we had the little old fisher woman with her fishing rod, by the river bank. The river was made by the four people, they were making wavy movements together, and the trout were two of the people quickly kneeling up towards the fisher woman, begging to get hooked. Then when it came to the next line “………… one giant lay down and started to lap up the water” the water was gradually going down towards the ground. Then the giant said “………… as he drained the river dry, come on little fishes into my gob”. We then had all four people quickly running up towards the giant.

In scene 2 we used many gestures to symbolize certain meanings, such as “ making deals, making a noise, making love, borrowing money, lending money, getting arrested and sleeping in corners”. We used a variety of different hand movements and actions for these activities. We also included a lot of noise in this scene, such as “ quarrelling, shouting, crying, laughing and dancing” which was probably the more fun of them all, seeing as we had to dance to the song of “Night Fever”. We also used many facial expressions to show feelings, such as sadness, happiness and surprised. Some other groups used accents to create a better effect, we had the little old fisher woman, in an old croaky voice to make her sound old. This also helped to make it funny and improved our understanding of the play. I think that we all liked the idea of the story being narrative, I know that it made it a lot easier for some, especially me to understand the context of it more. We performed these to Miss Davidson’s group and got a lot of positive feedback from them and others in our class. At the end of all the performances Mr Hill used a very good example, which helped to understand the play more than I did before. He used the idea of George Bush being a very powerful man and the war between Iraq, the USA and England. This gave me a very strong image in my head that I could have drawn, him overpowering the USA and England involved in his plan to break out war with Iraq, a lot of people do not agree with his decision as there are many of lives at steak and is unfair to the people that have nothing to with this, but he has overpowered Tony Blair and nothing can be done about it anymore. Now we are going to war, because George Bush wants too! He is too powerful for anyone to stand up to him, unless there are lots of people standing up to him in a protest. This shows that George Bush and Tony Blair could be the two giants and have taken over two countries.