Show how the production of an Inspector calls enhanced the script and furthered your understanding of the play. Refer to themes and characters in your analysis.
Show how the production of an Inspector calls enhanced the script and furthered your understanding of the play. Refer to themes and characters in your analysis. 'An Inspector Calls' is a production about society and how different people feel about it. It also touches on peoples conscience and was written by J. B. Preistley. It's all about a family in 1912 but was written in 1945, the families name is the Birlings who all has a part in the death of a woman called Eva Smith. We went to the production of An inspector Calls in the West End. It furthered my understanding of many of the characters, but I found myself far more interested in these characters, the inspector, Eric and Shelia. Shelia in the script seems very young and innocent and has no true understanding of 1912 life this can be seen when mr Birling was talking about cheap labour act 1 "but these girls aren't cheap labour there people", she also seems to be influenced in the way that if she hears what the inspector is saying then she believes and sticks up for him. She seemed pleased with what she believes is life and rather excitable. She seems to be the one who develops most in the script and play. From the opening description of her, followed by her account of her getting Eva Smith the sack - which shows her as a spoilt, self - centred brat. She soon seems to face up to her part in Eva Smith's death and talks
The house of Bernarda Alba
The house of Bernarda Alba Along with Blood Wedding and Yerma, The house of Bernarda Alba, forms a trilogy expressing what Federico Garcia Lorca saw as the tragic life of Spanish women. Adapted for the stage by David Hare- who has been writing for the national theatre since 1975- this story is set in rural Spain at the turn of this century. The characters, all women, exist in a claustrophobic household managed by a newly widowed mother of five daughters. The title character tyrannises her daughters by enforcing an eight-year mourning period so as to protect the reputation of the family. As the story progresses we find out that the only way out that they have is to marry, if they can find someone who Bernarda sees as worthy. When the eldest daughter is engaged to be married to most attractive man for miles, Pepe al Romano, tensions flare up among the sisters as each of them unleashes their feelings. I think the play comments very effectively on the pressures of convention, the imprisoning effect of mourning customs and the frustration of female sexuality. It brings to question a lot of issues such as what happens when authority becomes tyranny? And what happens when male-female relationships are seen in terms of power and advantage? The set of the play, shown in the Lyttelton Theatre, was amazing. It gave the very feel of a wealthy house in a Spanish village, by use of
Post-Fordism is the appearance of new sharp of organization of production, tendency of consumption and modal of regulation. It is a movement beyond the Fordism.
Post-Fordism is the appearance of new sharp of organization of production, tendency of consumption and modal of regulation. It is a movement beyond the Fordism. First of all, the way of organization of production is changing from Fordism to post-fordims. Fordism refers to a manufacturing system with mass production and mass consumption of standard of goods. In Fordism era, capitalists tend to generate huge factories, hire enormous amount of unskilled workers who do the single specific task and stock very lager number of inventory. By doing this, forms would achieve economic scale of production, in tern gain the advantage in terms cost of producing goods. Post-Fordism adopts more flexible m9nufacturing system. The flexible system emphasizes more on the quality of production rather than the quantity. It shifts the ability of system from economies of scale to economies of scope. Robin Murry highlights a series of production changes ''across there have been change in product life and product innovation, with shorter, flexible runs and a wider wide range of product on offer; changes in stock control, with just-in-time methods removing the need to hold large amounts of costly stock; and changes in design and marketing in response to an increasingly diverse pattern of consumption demand.''(www.hmse.edu 'from Fordism to Post-Fordism'). These changes can be described in novel term
Dear Mr Priestley - I have recently been studying your play 'An Inspector Calls'
Huish Close Highbridge Somerset TA9 3HF 28th February 2002 Dear Mr Priestley, I have recently been studying your play 'An Inspector Calls' in my school and would greatly appreciate it if you would take time out of your busy schedule to read my thoughts on the following. Firstly I would like to talk about the overall message of the play. Secondly I would like to discuss Sheila's role in the play and thirdly two different productions of Sheila's confession speech. The play was set in 1912 too emphasise the ignorance of people in that day and age. I think you were trying to show how it was very rarely that people admitted to their own mistakes and that people of a higher social class could easily manipulate, control and take advantage of people of lower social class. For example the Birling's were upper/middle class and Eva was working class and Nearly all the Birling Family disrespected or took advantage of Eva during some point or another. In my opinion the inspector's purpose in the play was to make the family see that there ignorance and impertinence could very easily cause a normal person to steep to extreme measures to survive and eventually commit suicide. The inspector's speech was very dramatic, I thought it was a very good summary of the message the inspector was trying to get across to the family which was ' Just
How sustainable are thermal power stations and biogas plants?
How sustainable are thermal power stations and biogas plants? The sustainability of an electricity-generating process determines if it uses resources in a way that can provide enough power required for years to come. Ideally, this can be achieved by using only renewable sources that will be constantly available, and once processed, will give an adequate amount of electricity that will consumed by industry, commerce, transport, households and agriculture. I am going to discuss the sustainability of two approaches to electricity production used at present, thermal power plants and biogasifiers. Thermal power stations are used mainly in MEDC's because they are expensive to produce and maintain. They generate electricity by burning coal, oil or gas, which gives off carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and dust. The input resources are not only rapidly becoming scarce, but are difficult and dangerous to collect from the ground with occasional oil spills, along with damage to the environment. They are also non-renewable and mean this type of power production using these most efficient resources will not be able to continue into the future. The waste products of fossil fuels pollute the atmosphere consequently affecting the increasing problem of acid rain and radioactivity. The large cooling towers are considered an eyesore in the landscape, and must be positioned next to a river for
The Government Inspector was a hilarious and creative satire based on the 1830's script of Ukrainian-born writer Nikolai Gogol. The director, Adam Cook, of the State Theatre Company of South Australia, brought to life
The Government Inspector Review: On Wednesday the 13th of March, my colleagues and I went to view The Government Inspector at the Dunstan Playhouse. The excitement felt when viewing great theatre is a kind of creative nourishment. The Government Inspector was a hilarious and creative satire based on the 1830's script of Ukrainian-born writer Nikolai Gogol. The director, Adam Cook, of the State Theatre Company of South Australia, brought to life Gogol's play with brilliant acting and breathtaking sets all packaged together with a touch of modern Australianism. The plot was simplistic but ingenious. In the 1830's of Provincial Russia, where corruption took place, messengers by the names of Dobchinsky and Bobchinksy, the town gossips, falsely claim that a government inspector from St.Petersburg has come to inspect their quaint community. All of the character's, including the mayor, have their own little peccadilloes or skeletons in their closets and are afraid that this inspector may reveal their past indiscretions. This assumption sparks off a hilarious romp of dramatic irony, where the audience is well aware that the impostor government inspector, Khlestakov, is a phoney when the characters of the community are totally unaware. When mistaking the government inspector with another person the story revealed the corruption, backstabbing and gossipy nature of the main
The Dumb Waiter Assignment - Who has the most power? How do they control the discourse?
Ellie Moreton The Dumb Waiter Assignment - Who has the most power? How do they control the discourse? For this assignment I am going to present the different features inclusive in 'The Dumb Waiter' script, which show who has the power and how they maintain it. This text is a dialogue and script for a play, film or broadcast because of the graphology. The graphology differentiates it from a transcript because it has grammatical symbols, such as full stops and commas etc. So in effect we can say that it will be constructed carefully to give particular impressions and feelings of the characters. This script contains no adjacency pairs, but is comprised of turn taking. Ellipsis can also be observed through reading through the text. There is little ellipsis present, but it has a big significance in the power aspect of the script. Gus uses the most ellipsis in his sentences, which shows that he is the one that is most grammatically incorrect. Although, Ellipsis is included to maintain the element needed to make this script seem as though it is a transcript, and that it is an actual conversation, unplanned, between two people. Gus has the highest MLU in this script, but this doesn't necessarily mean that as he speaks more, he will be the one in power. Gus doesn't need to speak so much to answer Ben, but he speaks in interrupted and disjointed constructions,
The mandate review
The mandate review Banned for decades in the USSR, the Mandate is a classic by Nikolai Erdman, writer of other plays such as "the suicide" and "A meeting about laughter." Declan Donnolen has adapted the most recent production in the English language for the national theatre. Under the new communist two former wealthy families and property-owners are chaotically adrift in the new proletarian state bewildered about how they should define themselves. The first family- the Petrovna's are down on their luck after the Revolution. The only solution is a wedding to a good Communist. Inevitably, the chosen family -the rich, upper class Guliachkin's- are, in their turn looking to marry off one of two Russian sons to a Communist and so when Pasha turns up with a mandate, all seems happy. However, what is a play without a twist and a little humour thrown in for size? The plot hinges on mistaken identities and in particular the confusion of cook, Nastia. She has her fifteen minutes of fame in the golden guise of an Imperial Princess returned to save her people. I think there was a very comical energy to this production right from the beginning with the outrageous decision to replace 'Copenhagen Twilight' with a portrait of Karl Marx and then the added humour of Ivan Ivanovich -- scurrying about with a pot of noodles on his head! What kept it afloat for me, among the numerous references
An Act of a script using director's instructions and dialogue
English Language Coursework: Personal Writing An Act of a script using director's instructions and dialogue Character list Angela Mother Girl 1 Girl 2 Boy 1 Boy 2 Boy 3 Note that none of the characters except Angela are named so the audience do not connect with the characters and they instead focus on the isolation Angela is feeling. Act one Scene 1 Curtains open to a sitting room in a house. The room is full of cabinets, bookshelves, sofas and a television. A 9-year-old child we know to be Angela sits on the sofa staring gloomily at her feet, while her mother sits in the chair opposite her. MOTHER: Is this about your dad? ANGELA: (Stiffly). I don't even remember my dad. MOTHER: Angela.... why do you never talk to me about it? ANGELA: Because I know all about it, you hate him and he hates you so you are not living together anymore. MOTHER: (Sighing). We do not hate each other we.... ANGELA: (Shouting). Then why are you not together? You hate dad, dad hates you and I hate you too. MOTHER: (Fighting back tears) Is that why you keep playing with the matches? Is it because you hate me? ANGELA: No... MOTHER: Why then Angela? Why go to all the trouble of climbing up on chairs to reach them? (No reply) Why do you keep disobeying my rules? I have them for a purpose...so you do not get hurt! ANGELA: No you do not; you have rules so you can make sure I have
Our last lesson was about a play written by John Godber called Bouncers. It's about four men who work in a nightclub. It is also about their lives and the people they are approached by or come in contact with.
Bouncers Introduction: Our last lesson was about a play written by John Godber called Bouncers. It's about four men who work in a nightclub. It is also about their lives and the people they are approached by or come in contact with. In this essay I will be mainly focusing on Eric. In the play Eric comes across as the leader of the group, he also comes across as the most intellectual. I think Eric's character is revealed as the play goes on. So in my opinion he has the most depth. Eric plays many different roles such as, Baz (one of the young men who visit the nightclub) and Maureen (one of the women getting her hair cut). All in all Eric undergoes eighteen character transformations. John Godber has used many theatre techniques in this play such as mime, thoughts aloud and character transformation. All of the characters are involved with at least is involved with one or more of those examples. Eric's character is involved in transformations, thoughts aloud and mime. Eric uses character transformations the most although he does use thoughts aloud four times. In Bouncers we learn there is more to bouncers than just being big fat bald (or balding) men. What John Godber has done is given the characters life as it were. Eric and his mates are always talking about girls, drink and bodybuilding. Seeing as real life bouncers live in a nighttime