The swansong
The Swansong The Swansong was choreographed by a man called Christopher Bruce in 1987 and was performed by 3 male dancers. Swansong may come across as violent because of the way the many different dance styles are carried out. There are many different types of dances used the main ones being: ballet, tap, ball room and jazz. The story is about a prisoner being bullied and intimidated by the two prison guards and eventually the prisoner dies as a result of the bullying. It is called swansong because the movements the prisoner uses are bird like movements and the fact that he is isolated and trapped like a swan. There are not many costumes or props but the t-shirts that they wore were to signal who they were, and the main prop was a chair. It was used in all sorts of ways, as a shield, a weapon and also a questioning chair. The music and electrical effects are vital because the music shows the mood and the lighting shows the sort of movement and setting. Section 1 The tap dance is the main dance used in section 1 because it is used as a question and answer sequence. The section begins in silence then the interrogators enter and begin to dance. By the end of the dance it turns out being a duet versus a solo. The speed changes throughout the sequence and lifts, balances and twist are applied. Also different levels are used as the interrogators begin to play silly mind
Our Town Script Report
Jasmine Yu October 30, 2009 Script Report Play Title: Our Town Playwright: Thornton Wilder Genre: Contemplative work concerning human experiences. There is no specific genre. Discuss the Plot: "Our Town" is a play about a small American town in the early 1900's. It is divided into 3 parts of human experience: Daily Life, Love/Marriage, and Death/Loss. Daily Life introduces the reader to the setting and characters within the play; it also sets the mood for the following two acts. The act begins with the Stage Manger, as the narrator, introducing the audience to the setting, Grover's Corner in New Hampshire, in 1901. Two families are also introduced, the Gibbs and the Webb. The act begins in early morning and ends at night, so the audience sees the daily activities of the town, activities such as breakfast, school, gossip, gardening, etc. There are a couple of key points that foreshadow the occurrences in the following two acts. * Simon Stimson, the church organist, leads the church choir while drunk. The women gossip about him behind his back as Mr. Webb and the constable try to help him, but the organist wanders off. Mr. Webb wonders how Simon Stimson's situation will end, but concludes that nothing can be done for him or his addiction. * Emily Webb and George Gibbs are sitting at their windows (ladders) talking about algebra. Their conversation is
In this essay I will be examining the main character in Robert Westall's 'Kingdom By The Sea,' Harry Baguely.
Kingdom By The Sea Assessment In this essay I will be examining the main character in Robert Westall's 'Kingdom By The Sea,' Harry Baguely. The novel is set in the middle of the Second World War and follows Harry's journey up the north coast of Northumberland. I will be showing the development of Harry's personality from when he was a bright-faced, clean 11 year old right through to the end of the novel when he becomes a grubby faced but emotionally mature 12 year old. Throughout Harry's journey, he has experienced many negative events, the first being the bombing of his house and the apparent killing of his family, - his mum, dad and little sister Dulcie. After this incident Harry was left with nothing but an attaché case and memories so the way he acts after this makes me think he is emotionally scarred as shown by the few days Harry wandered around the streets aimlessly; 'The next time he found himself again he found he was in Rudyerd Street.' This displays the impact of his family's deaths and the emotions he went through. Because Harry was left to fend for himself, his character changed enormously as he picked up the pieces of his life. This is demonstrated when he lies to the Fish and Chip shop owner and his customers; 'he almost ran out of answers and sweated.' This adds to our knowledge that Harry is changing because before his desperation he would not have lied to
Evaluation of Naturalistic Improvisation.
GCSE Drama: Evaluation of Naturalistic Improvisation My group consisted of four characters: * Me * Roxana * Vaishali, and * David In our Drama lessons over the past few weeks, we have been working on a style of drama called Naturalism. Naturalism is a style of drama, which accurately recreates the details of real life on stage. It attempts to make events/situations as realistic as possible, including the characters. We were made to create and rehearse a naturalistic improvisation and present it to the whole class. Firstly, we thought of a setting that we could act as realistically as possible. We didn't think of a plot. I.e. a classroom or a family round the dinner table etc. We then went off and thought about our own individual characters, then shared out ideas with the rest of the group. During rehearsal, we each thought about our characters status, objective, action and subtext. I based each of these things on specific features of different friends. I.e. one of my friend's status would be very confident and conveyed to the audience by slouching on a chair but with her head up high. Another friend's objective would be to get whatever she wanted etc. Status means how much confidence someone has and how much they are thought of in the world. My characters status was quite high (except she wasn't thought of in the world!!) until the end of our piece. She was very
Four others and I devised a piece, which was called Radio Times and lasted around half an hour. The piece was set between the years 1979 -1986 portraying a typical family. What it also covers is how the Falklands war, which was in 1982, impacts on t
DR3 COURSEWORK PROJECT As part of the schools celebration of 50 years the drama class was divided into groups, with the assignment of creating at short play set within the last 50 years. Four others and I devised a piece, which was called "Radio Times" and lasted around half an hour. The piece was set between the years 1979 -1986 portraying a typical family. What it also covers is how the Falklands war, which was in 1982, impacts on the lives of everyone in the family. The style of the play was inspired by 'Willie Russell's 'Blood Brothers' how people are influenced by the social and cultural world they live in. In our play they are all affected by the war in different ways. Both Eddie and Mickey are affected by the economic recession and the play has tragic consequences. One mans live than be influenced and changed by certain events. I went to see this play in London and I was astonished by the cast and how the actors were not only amazing but perfect for the roles and they were brilliant singers this gave me a better understanding of facial expressions and movement these aspects of blood brothers helped me in my own devised piece. The idea of our play covers life between 1979-1986 in which the war was taking place. We decided to use a war theme as war is a major reason why many people's family members have died and still till this day the nation talk about the wars
Within this essay I am going to discuss two plays I have studied during the course so far. The first play is "Billy Liar" by Keith Waterhouse. The second play is "Blue Remembered Hills" By Dennis Potter.
Alexandra Salters 10LK 25th September 2002 Year 11 GCSE Drama Essay Within this essay I am going to discuss two plays I have studied during the course so far. The first play is "Billy Liar" by Keith Waterhouse. The second play is "Blue Remembered Hills" By Dennis Potter. The first play "Billy Liar" is set in the late 1950's early 1960's. The play has many different genres, the play shows elements of a kitchen sink drama; it also has elements of black comedy even though of the scenes are lighthearted it also has a tragic ending. "Billy Liar" tells the story of a young man from a lower middle class family called Billy who has become bored with his life as an undertaker. He decides to make up stories to make his life more interesting than it is, he even ends up with three girlfriends at the same time, At the end of the play Billy has the chance to go off with the girl he loves to start a new life, he decides not to go, this makes the ending of the play very sad and we wonder if Billy will ever change. In the play "Billy Liar" I played Alice. I tried to play Alice's character with a lot of energy, to achieve this I would rush around the stage collecting tea things and rushing off stage as if going to the kitchen I also used the space provided, Alice has a broad North Yorkshire accent so I used my voice to achieve this.
Drama terroism
Scene 1/ Opening Opening scene in tablo Narrator: 8:50am, three bombs on the London Underground exploded with 50 seconds of each other. Here just a few stories that happened on one train. 4: We are two sisters who died in the bombings. We were there as we just saved enough money to go on holiday for the first time in 5 years. : We both were going on a business trip to an important meeting. 2: I was the bomber and I was only 15 years old when I died. 3: I am a paramedic who was travelling into work. I helped the injured people in the accident, as I was one of the few he luckily survived. Scene 2 5: My sister and me had just saved enough money to go on holiday to Bournemouth, after going off drugs 4: We were so looking forward to it. I had packed all my stuff! We were going to stay in 4 star accommodations with a beautiful view of the ocean. We were going to ride donkeys and maybe a horse and carriage thingy. 5: No darling that's Blackpool. We were going to eat like royalty there. 4: Yer, Harry Ramsay fish'n'chips! 5: We could of become millionaires, won the jackpot and stay there forever! 4: Yer, I wish we could have been just that 1-minute late. Then we just might have. 5: Sorry were rambling on lets just show you what happened. 4: Yes, lets. 5: We were carrying our cases onto the train. 4: We couldn't wait! 5: Yes, well SHE couldn't. Anyway we got a
What connections are there between "Anansi" and "Billy Liar"?
What connections are there between "Anansi" and "Billy Liar"? The plays "Anansi" and "Billy Liar" were written in very different times. Anansi was written in 1992 and is set in 1790 on a ship travelling from Africa, wheras Billy Liar was written in and is set in an industrial north England town in 1960. The main connection between the two plays is the feeling of being trapped and having a lack of control between the two main characters and the similar methods they use to escape this. In "Anansi" the escaping character was the 'girl'; she was being shipped to an unknown land to be sold into slavery and had no control over the situation she was forced into. In "Billy Liar" the character with a lack of control was 'Billy Fisher'; Billy has frustrated ambitions and feels the environment in which he lives is holding him back. The 'girl' in "Anansi" escapes through the stories about a cunning spider, originally told to her by an old woman with whom she is tied. The old woman encourages her to let her imagination run away, we can see this when she says, "Don't tie yourself up with words like impossible". The character of Billy Fisher escapes through his daydreams which he often slips into, he is encouraged by one of his girlfriends, Liz. Billy and Liz dream of growing up together, and sharing a house, in which they will create a room where Billy is Prime Minister, and Liz is
blood brothers - response
Response Could have been him Marilyn Monroe Adoption Friendship Themes Of Blood Superstition Brothers Toy / Real Guns Class Dancing I think that superstition and class are the two main themes in the play because at the end of the play the narrators last phase says: 'Do we blame superstition or class?' The narrator also draws attention to superstition throughout the play, for example: 'There's shoes upon the table an' a joker in the pack, The salts been spilled and a looking glass cracked, There's one lone magpie overhead.' One original piece of role play I performed was when both Miss Lyons and Miss Johnstone announced they were pregnant. Both scenes were very different from each other as they got different reactions depending on where the announcement was. For Miss Lyons's dinner party the characters had to be posh and very precise on what they were saying. After Miss Lyons told the party her news and they acted pleased as they knew they had been trying for a number of years but they also had their doubts. We used thought tracking in our performance to show what people really thought of Miss Lyons being
Hard to Swallow
Hard to Swallow The exploratory technique we used during class was sculpting. There was one girl in our group who moulded the other members into a scene which she thought represented how the Dunbar family felt at this point in the play, which was at Christmas time. The still images of the Dunbar family increased my understanding of the play at this point because of the way people had chosen to represent characters. They used space and height to show importance or authority. For example: groups chose to show Mr Dunbar standing on a chair because he was head of the family. People used embraces to show the parents being protective of their children and the children being protective of their little sister Catherine. I hadn't realised before how close each of the family members was and these images with people with their arms around each other showed to me that they were. Facial expressions were very important in this exercise and they helped a lot to understand how happy the family was, also their physical contact showed unity. The mother and father's facial expressions showed how proud they were of their children I hadn't thought about them being proud of them before. I was the sculptor for my group and I tried to convey the closeness between certain members in the house like the mother and Catherine and showed this by facial expressions. I feel that I do understand the parents