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James And The Giant Peach Analysis

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James and the Giant Peach is a classic story that I was told as a child all the time. I was really excited to be able to do this project, because it is and will always be a good story. In all four of these productions of James and the Giant Peach, each production had very similar ideas overall, and the peach in some productions also seemed to glow. Getting the peach to glow really awesome idea to me because it gives the giant peach a certain look so others know that the peach is not just a piece of fruit on stage its more than that. When I say certain look I mean it makes the peach look glamorous. Seattle and the Bay Area productions had different ideas about what a peach looked like. They still made the peach the center, but it just wasn’t as bold or colorful. In the San Diego production the Peach was represented as a detail with a lot of color and was also the main prop that the actors and actresses used. The peach was in the shape of a half dome. Having the peach glow was a really cool to me, and of course the giant peach glowed orange like the movie did. The actors and actresses represented every character in the movie …show more content…

Making the peach glow was an awesome touch. The size was big enough so that the actors and actresses could actually fit inside and the peach even had the half dome shape similar to if you cut a peach in half. The peach was truly represented as the main theme from the book and the movie and put into this production. To me the costume designs were good on the aspect of representation, but could have used more detail, as far as how bit the ladybugs body is and some costumes looked like it was meant to be a bug. The detail could have been added so there was no questions that actor or actress was playing the role of a certain

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