Ruby Moon Essay

Ruby Moon skipped down the corridor of Fire to her Grandmother’s place and never came back. Now Ruby’s Parents are haunted by her disappearance and spend their nights piecing together information to find an answer and hopefully their daughter. Throughout their interrogation of their oddball neighbours, they begin to piece together the truth; the shocking plot twist reveals that maybe Ruby was never going to return home. In Scene 9, the actors aimed for an insight into the cyclical lives of Ray and Sylvie Moon. The actions and language portrayed display the frustration of Ray and the hopeful optimism of Sylvie.

The beginning scene of the play states "It commences just like a fairy tale". At the beginning of the play everything seems normal with positive vibes just as any normal fairy tale would. The play commences with positive music which gradually builds up in suspense which inflicts an image of shock and horror. Matt Cameron impeccably portrays how the everyday Australian does not live in a "fairy tale" world assuming you are safe everywhere and anywhere you go, Matt Cameron is endeavoring

In ‘Neighbourhood Watch’ a non-naturalistic performance style is used to allow the audience to make sense and develop their understanding of the present characteristics of the characters. Flashbacks of the main character are portrayed in non-naturalistic form as we see Anna’s friend Catherine playing out the role of ‘young Ana’. This is evident in Act 1 Scene 10 and Act 1 Scene 16. All three scenes require the Catherine to transform into a new character called ‘Young Ana’ as we flashback into the past scenes of Ana’s imagination; this is evident in the texts stage directions ‘ARTUR speaks to CATHERINE now, as though she is the young ANA. The real ANA steps slightly away’ to show the transformation of ANA into CATHERINE. However the scenes are set within the setting of the present time, for instance, the text stating ‘Ana’s home transforms into Hungary’ shows the non-naturalistic setting of the scenes. Both performance techniques are elements of the Non-naturalistic performance style and highly reflect the non-naturalistic nature of the performance.

The film “The Sapphires” directed by Wayne Blair, is based around and set in the era of the Vietnam war. Belonging whether it’s race or love is a big part of this film and constantly appears in different ways. One of the main characters, Dave Lovelace throughout the film is constantly rejected as he tries to belong and be a part of the group.

The play used a non-linear structure of scenes which went from a younger age of the characters to and age sometime older and continued with this back and forth from young to old throughout the play. By having the structure go back and forth between different times in the past instead of using the typical linear structure that goes from past to present allows the play to have a way of being suspenseful and keep the audience engaged and interested in watching to see what happens next.

A short play is usually filled with a theatrical energy of diverse anthologies. The time allotted may be only ten or fifteen minutes, so it must be able to capture and engage the audience with some dramatic tension, exciting action, or witty humor. Just as in a short story, a great deal of the explanation and background is left for the reader or viewer to discover on their own. Because all the details are not explicitly stated, each viewer interprets the action in their own way and each experience is unique from someone else viewing the same play. Conflict is the main aspect that drives any work of literature, and plays usually consist of some form of conflict. In “Playwriting 101:

central to the play. I am going to look at only the first act of the

Violent crowds of people gathered around the school. “We don’t want you here,” a man yelled.” “If you go in there, I’ll poison you,” a woman said as she shook a black girl doll in a coffin. The mob continued to yell and raise their signs as four federal marshals escorted a child. A six year old African American girl. The girl walked through the mob like they weren’t even there. If she was scared, she showed no sign of it. All she showed was courage. She came to this school to get a good education and a mob of protesters wasn’t going to get her to leave. This wasn’t any ordinary girl. This was Ruby Bridges.

Throughout the play there are many themes leading up to and causing the chief event.

The protagonist in Ernest Hemmingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Jacob Barnes, is a down on his luck war veteran living in France. Jake is characterized by his experiences prior to the events of the book and he narrates the story from a quiet observer’s third person perspective, often times quite cynically, exemplified when he tells his friend Robert Cohn, “You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”Although never openly stating it, Jake on several occasions implies that due to a war injury he has lost the ability to have sex which leaves him feeling very insecure about his own masculinity, likely contributing to his

The overall dramatic meaning of this play has been successfully shown by the elements of drama. The

Paper Moon is 1973 comedy-drama written and directed by an American film maker Peter Bogdanovich and was released by Paramount Pictures. The movie talks about the depression and poverty among the American people. Peter Bogdanovich uses a little girl Tatum O, Neal as his main character to reflect on the poverty of Kansas and Missouri in the year 1936. It is a joyful movie from the beginning to the end as it is considered the most charming movie. It is a significant movie because it touches on the real life situations.

His methodical and systematic approach helps draw out the tension and mystery of the play

Ruby Daly is the main character in the book. She has long brown hair with green eyes and is classified as a orange in Thurmond she is 16-17 very she is very sweet but distant until she learned your intentions. She met a girl at Thurmond Samantha Dah “Sam” was Ruby's best friend at Thurmond. She has is classified as green and is quoted to have braces and blonde hair. aged around 17-18 years old.

   In this essay I shall concentrate on the plays 'Road' by Jim Cartwright and 'Blasted' by Sarah Kane with specific reference to use of language and structure of dialogue as examples of dramatic techniques.