Theatre reflects society, questions society, asks society to question itself. How have the Australian plays you have studied used styles and conventions of the theatre to achieve this?
Title: Theatre reflects society, questions society, asks society to question itself.
How have the Australian plays you have studied used styles and conventions of the theatre to achieve this?
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 894 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Theatre reflects society, questions society, asks society to question itself.
How have the Australian plays you have studied used styles and conventions of the theatre to achieve this?
Category: /Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 894 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
The theatrical styles and conventions used in particular Australian plays reflect significant issues in Australian society in which they were created. In the two plays, Gary's House and The Seven Stages of Grieving (Seven Stages) the playwrights have used certain devices and forms such as symbolism and ritual, multi-media, sound and. The plays explore family values, depression and survival in the modern Australian society.
Seven Stages composed by Wesley Enoch and Deborah Mailmen started back …showed first 75 words of 894 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 894 total…challenges people on intellectual and emotional levels. The characters celebrating who they are as people. For audiences to come on a journey with them and see the world through their eyes for a little while. The effect of both is a highly memorable piece of theatre that goes beyond the obvious political and social messages, leaving the audiences with the impression that a vast human "dream" continues to be carried out in our mind set.
