Theatre Evaluation of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dream coat.

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Theatre Evaluation

On the 18th of December I went to the Edinburgh Playhouse Theatre with my drama class, we went to see ‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dream coat’.  This production was performed by a company called the Bill Kenwright Group. Bill Kenwright is now a successful theatrical producer, best known for the long-running West End hit Blood Brothers and the well known tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.

At the beginning of the musical, the narrator is telling the story of Joseph to young children, to get them to bed.  Then Jacob and all of his twelve sons appear on stage but it is clear from the start that all of Joseph’s brothers are jealous of Joseph as he is wearing a bright and colourful coat which was handed down to him from his father, Jacob.  We can then see from the dreams Joseph has that he is to rule over his brothers.  To make sure his dreams don’t come true, his brothers sell him as a slave to some travellers, who then take him to Egypt.

In scene two, the other eleven sons, tell Jacob that Joseph has died.  They then show their father his coat which has been smeared with goat’s blood to try and back up their story about Joseph’s death.  Jacob is distraught about Joseph as he was his favourite son.  In scene Three, Joseph becomes a slave to an Egyptian millionaire, Potiphar.  Joseph is then jailed after Potiphar thinks Joseph has fallen in love with his wife.  Joseph becomes depressed but helps out two cellmates who he cheers up.  Both cellmates were servants for Potiphar and have also have dreams, like Joseph.

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In the fourth scene the Narrator is telling us that Joseph will have a change in his luck as the Pharaoh is having dreams that no one is able to find the meaning of, apart from Joseph.  The Pharaoh orders Joseph to be brought to his temple after the freed Butler tells him of Joseph’s skills.  Joseph tells the Pharaoh that seven years of good harvest will be followed by seven years of famine.  Joseph is put in charge trying to stop the famine and becomes the second richest man in Egypt, behind the Pharaoh.

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