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Performance techniques

Audiences of Matt Cameron's play //Ruby Moon// and Jane Harrison's //Stolen// engage primarily with the personal concerns of the characters as well as the cultural issues addressed, through performance techniques and the delivery of the play  (What do you mean by this?)  to the audience. The actors employ various techniques from Indigenous Theatre, Epic Theatre and Theatre of the Absurd to highlight issues including grief and loss, displacement, abandonment, paranoia and fear of the unknown . These issues are  brought to light through the audience's prior knowledge of  missing children s cases and the stolen generation. For instance, Ray and Sylvie in //Ruby Moon// use banter and silences to stress the loss of sanity and repetitive nature of their relationship . T his technique is employed throughout the play and reveals the private workings of their relationship and <span style="color: #ff00d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">its ultimate <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> destruction. In addition to this, the <span style="background-color: #ffbd00; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">physical routines of <span style="background-color: #ffbd00; color: #ff00d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> the neighbours <span style="background-color: #ffbd00; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> of Flaming Tree Grove portray a dystopia within the neighbourhood <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">, either enabling the audience to empathise or sympathise with characters meanwhile <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">coming to a conclusion <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff00d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> I am still unsure of what you mean by this. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">of the story of Ruby's disappearance. A performance technique adopted in //Stolen// is narration, this technique thereby alludes to the narration as a story again creating significance on the story rather than the character. <span style="color: #ff00d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">(there is no narration in Stolen - Where do you mean??) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Brectian techniques are also adopted by the actors such as the breaking of character in the opening <span style="color: #ff00d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">scene, <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> as the actors walk on as themselves then transform into character <span style="color: #ff00d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">on stage. <span style="color: #ff00d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> This <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">again, <span style="color: #ff00d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">draws <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> the audiences <span style="color: #ff00d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">attention to the fact <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> that they are <span style="color: #ff00d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> watching <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> actors performing a story <span style="color: #ff00d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">, giving <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> more significance <span style="color: #ff00d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">to <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> the story and the issues raised by it. <span style="color: #ff00d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> (now explain why this is important) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> As these performance techniques are used throughout the plays //Ruby Moon// and //Stolen// the audience engrosses <span style="color: #ff00d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">(use the key word from the question "engage") <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> themselves within the story and issues raised hence adapting the story to the audiences understanding and enlightening them on these affairs.

<span style="color: #ff00d3; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Dee - Needs lots more specific examples from the plays and workshop evidence Miss, i tried to fix what you said, however on the point of "banter and silences" being used for the fourth time. Is it still relevant to performance techniques?.. Yes, it IS relevant, but your group's essay plan has caused the essay to become repetitive. You need to fix the essay plan.

would some of the workshop exercises like the one we used to evolve from oneself to the character through the use of a prop.. or is that irrelevant to the physical routine point highlighted? The workshop you mentioned above is exploring the actor's ability to perform multiple characters and the audiences reaction to seeing the actor transform on stage. thanks :) please pull the writing apart more :) Deee

Still needs a fair bit of work Dee. Go back to the essay writing page and look at the structuring page. Mrs Lyons