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Into The Woods Play Analysis

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The first paragraph should articulate your basic point of view. An eerie brick red light cast over the stage and shed light onto the intricate design of the stage. The audience was silent, and a feeling of excitement covered the room. Suddenly, everything would change. Singing, dancing and merriment covered the stage and set the path for the many surprises and fantastic contradictions of the play. The performers of Into the Woods succeeded in not only creating a wonderful performance of a beloved play, but also creating a memorable version like no other out there. The acting for the production as a whole was very believable, because the actors seemed to have thorough packing for their characters and to really try to relate to them …show more content…

It’s easy to forget that you are watching an actor playing the character. Her face just seemed so “in the clouds” and she had the most wonderful grin on her face. The performances in the production seemed very spontaneous. The actors never seemed mechanical or as if they had seen anything new their characters encounter a million times before. Their use of tone, pitch and volume in their words conveyed the sense that this was all really happening for the first time right in front of us. They weren’t afraid to use these vocal tools to express their passion and to raise the stakes. This is Jordan 2 what I struggle with most as an actor, so watching it done so well was very helpful and gave me some insight into how it should be done. The characters also had fantastic externals, especially their costumes. When the Witch stumbled in in her black spiked, heeled suit she greatly contrasted the merry townspeople, which I loved. She looked like a great black widow spider within a herd of sheep. It really showed that she’s an outcast from everyone else, which I think is important to the story. The performance style in this production of Into the Woods was somewhat …show more content…

I loved the fact that while they spoke like characters out of an old Disney movie sometimes, the things they said were so blunt and hilarious. It’s part of what really makes Into the Woods what it is. It’s funny, a little gritty, and sometimes even shocking. One of my favorite actors from the performance was the actor who played Cinderella’s prince and the wolf. The wolf’s super objective is to eat (and possibly, depending on your perspective on the play, rape) Red Riding Hood. In all of the wolf’s scene’s he is trying to get her alone to “devour her”. He is bloodthirsty and she is his target. He also doesn’t mind eating Red Riding Hood’s grandma (another objective), but it’s Red Riding Hood he really wants. Some of the obstacles the wolf faces in his journey include the Grandmother and Red Riding Hood’s stubbornness to go straight to Grandmother’s house. He has to figure out a way to lure her off of her path. Jordan 3 Action analysis for a single character in a single scene (continued). Continuing to analyze the same character and scene from Paragraph 4, write about the following elements:

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