Australian theatre

1. Created by
   1. Characterisation
   2. Movement
   3. Staging

1. Created by
   1. Setting
   2. Space
   3. Dialogue

1. The use of pause
   1. To highlight important moments

Nota:

• The speed with which speech and movement sequences are delivered in a play. Pace of the play can be manipulated into varied rhythms, rhythms which can create both confusion and comfort, chaos and order. This element is vital to atmosphere and tension.

Nota:

• Physical, graphic, and sound elements that contain recognised meanings.

1. Body language

   Nota:

   • Open stanzas, close distances, physical proximity of characters including hugs, hugs, and of course the handshake is perhaps the biggest physical symbol used in the play
2. The cigarette

   Nota:

   • The symbol of sharing a cigarette, despite soldiers on the fire, the cultural day type of the diggers in thetrenches, worshipped by Norm.
3. The set

   Nota:

   • This is just a building site, represents the world pulled down and under reconstruction.
   1. The bin

      Nota:

      • The garbage bin, receptacle of refuse, and also punching bag for norms anger.
4. Costume

   Nota:

   • Used as a symbol of cultural backgrounds for each character for example that is just great to be wearing traditional clothing of his country, where as normal as described to be wearing casual every day clothing

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• Sound is the use of body, instruments, recording and SFX.

1. Thigh slaps

   Nota:

   • The possible use of thigh slaps when Norm laughs would juxtapose the laughter with the undercurrent of violence.
2. Possible soundtrack

   Nota:

   • The use of ethnic sound track at the opening and ending of the pay would mean the possibility for the sound effects to highlight the action tension and cultural forces of the play. The use of a Australian political song at the end could push the tension of norms action into a further point to ponder for the audience.

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• How is the space used and is the audience acknowledged in the play or is there an imaginary fourth wall between actor and the audience.

1. The audience

   Nota:

   • The audience is never acknowledged, the play is heightened realism set behind the fourth wall. As mute witnesses to the action in the play, are unable to intervene or cry out in warning, disagreement, or horror. This affect increases the fascination and tension of the play. The audience is forced to engage with the 2 characters, intimately aware of their thoughts and action, fears and insecurities.

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• Use of movements and gestures and performance to create meaning. Greatly utilised to emphasise the underlying aggression of the text, particulars as a tool that would be available to norm.

1. Norm circling

   Nota:

   • Norm cycling around Ahmed moving in and out of shadows, sharklike, smiling, wearing, laughing, hugging, scrutinising, touching, shaking hands. Ahmed going from frozen, to relaxed, reaching out, backing off, moving forward then moving away, unsure of where to place his feet or his thoughts.

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• Managing the stage space so that the audience looks at the most important moments.

1. Stage spacing

   Nota:

   • Bare and full of potential, allows the audience to focus entirely on the performers, there is little to distract them from the intimacy of the exchange.
2. Shifting

   Nota:

   • Over time the characters shift their place in the space, showing the shifting status that exists in the text.

Nota:

• Character history and how that is represented through personal acting choices I eat how is voice, body and mind used to create a character.

1. Character contrast

   Nota:

   • Norm and Ahmed are contrasting to each other. The confident, educated and erudite Ahmed contrasted to the rough and ready "she'll be right" unsure earnestness of norm. The raw brutality of norm against the sharp incisive observations of Ahmed.

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• How are characters linked/related to others on stage.

1. Created by

   Nota:

   • The use of body language, proxemics and the physical action. The relationship between the two is intimidation and mockery which ultimately metamorphosis into an act of extreme violence possibly murder, is coupled with the conflict of the two stereotypes of characters, their interactions and the focus.

Nota:

• What does each character want and how did they go about getting it.

1. Norm

   Nota:

   • Norms objectives and tactics seems to shift constantly almost moment to moment this use of objective, intense, tactics helps expose the subtitles of the text, and highlight issues explored by Buzo

Nota:

• What is the location, yeah, time, or abstract space the characters this includes the staging choices/set and how they affect the performance as well as social context.

1. Australian Aruban setting

   Nota:

   • The Australians suburban Street, made more foreboding by darkness, a pool of light, and silence, became the location of a deadly dance of anger and frustration by norm.
2. Social context

   Nota:

   • The plays Setting turns the urban Australian landscape into a battlefield. Are we really open, welcoming and friendly, just like the travel add Tell us we are? Laid-back, Unconcerned and open to the new chum, accepting of others's differences as our history books like to say? Or are we cutt off, isolated, happy in our win corners, and wishing to protects our own piece of god zone country from the grabbing hands of the feared and dark non white stranger?