Zusammenfassung der Ressource
DNA by Dennis Kelly
- Characters
- Leah
- One sided
relationship
with
Phil
- 'Moves away' at the
end of the play
- Talks a lot (long
monologues)
- Always trying to get
Phil's attention
- Kills her hamster to
get Phils attention
- Phil
- Very quiet
- The brains behind all the plans
- Everyone listens to him
- Twisted
- Always eating
- Jan
- Responsible for the lead
up to Adam falling in
the grille
- Bounces off Mark (duologues)
- Brian
- Made to lie about the guy
in the woods
- Put on medication and goes a bit
mad towards the end of the play
- Cries constantly
throughout the first part
of the play
- Taken advantage of by Cathy
and Phil and made to kill Adam
- Weak willed
- Adam
- Falls in
grille
- Loses
memory
and lives
in a bush
- Ate dead animals
to survive
- Cathy
- Assists Brian in killing
Adam near the end of the
play
- No empathy
- Outspoken at first but
becomes more crucial as
the play goes on
- More interested in being on
TV than the situation
- Twisted
- Frames a random guy for
Adams 'kidnapping'
- Threatens Brian
- Lou
- Pessimistic
- Mark
- Responsible for the
lead up to Adam
falling in the grille
- Bounces off Jan (duologues)
- John Tate
- Only in second
scene
- Bans the word 'dead' in the second scene
- "If you're not on my side that
means you're setting yourself up
against me"
- Very defensive
- Danny
- Wants to be a dentist
- Richard
- Replaces Leah in last
scene with Phil
- Staging
- Proscenium Arch
- Sound
- Can be used to...
- Creates mood and atmosphere
- Builds tension
- Strengthen an emotion or empathise the action on stage
- Help set the scene
- Indicate a change of time or lovation
- Focus attention onto a particular character
- Lighting