Visit to a comical play called ‘Departures’ in the Civic Theater, Chelmsford.

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The GCSE drama classes visited the theater to see a comical play called ‘Departures’ in the Civic Theater, Chelmsford.

The play all took place in the airport lobby, it was about different people’s experiences and feelings at the time that they were in the airport lobby. They set stage out to look like what a typical airport lobby would look like. It had two exist from stage on the sides, and one that would go out the back of the stage.

In all there were a total of four actors, two females, two males. Some of the characters doubled up on parts. For example the blonde lady was an assistant, and then someone’s daughter. We could clearly tell they had changed character by their costume, and sometimes the way they used the tone and pitch of their voices.

I began to able to understand what kind of characteristics the characters had, for example the shortest man was the same character all the way through, he was a pessimist he was rarely smiling and happy. He also did not like to wait for things, for example when he was told there was a delay flight he would make a fuss and get very irritated with it. There were two story’s taking place in the play, one of a man and his marriage relationship, and the other being the man’s daughter finding the beginnings of a new relationship. The man was contemplating on whether or not to have an affair with his new assistant eventually he did and him and his wife a long discussion about where their relationship was heading. The next story was of the man’s daughter, she had met a new man at the airport, and he was a pilot. They seemed to instantly have a reaction toward each other. The story is left alone for a while, and when it comes back the daughter introduced the pilot to her father, and told them they had plans to be married.

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I liked it when the man and his assistant were flirting as there use of body movement made it look convincing, the assistant would play with her hair n giggle allot, and the man would continuously look at the assistants body while he spoke to her.

In the play the also used the props for effect, for example they would put there rubbish in the bin that was in the corner. They also looked out to the audience as if it was the window to outside the airport. One of the men was talking about how the weather didn’t look ...

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