Review of ghost dances

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Review of ghost dances

I thought ghost dances was a huge success performed at the city school on the Wednesday night. This was one of three nights and all the actors/actresses performed tremendously magnificent. The general outline of the play was about a young married mother and her daughters and how they felt when there father never returned home. It is a tearful story of how they waited and hoped every night that their father would soon arrive home. Later in the play one of the daughters falls in love and they both get engaged but all is lost when one night they are walking home together, he is dramatically shot and the daughter is taken away. The structure of the play was really well performed and put across to an audience. If there was a comedy, there would more than likely to have been a distressing scene straight after.

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The set was a huge empty space and at the back there was four flats (two at each end of the stage) they were neutral colours, mainly with shades of: browns, greens and oranges and these colours were chosen to give the impression of an influential play. In the middle of the flats were some large rocks and a few tiny pebbles scattered round. The set presented like this gave it a feel of wonder and curiosity that anything could happen.  

The props used were all promptly moved on and off the stage for the following scenes or ...

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