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The play was awesome! it was about 5 prisoners, escaping from prison but encounters a book that make you dance. I think the book is just an excuse to add in the dancing bit, but the scene changes were so good BECAUSE of the book and maybe yea, the book wasn't so bad.
Lets talk drama:
1. LIGHTING
the lights were good, the way they manipulated the lights in the beginning, using spotlights to snapshot characters as a way of introduction, the red downward spotlights making it look like the prison area, and red to symbolize love at the begin bits. The lights were worked really well with the sound effects as well. Oh yes, the lightning was emphasized using lights as prisoners were trying to dig their way out of prison.
2. MUSIC
suitable music sound effects brought out scenes, while they were working, the raining bit, the hospital, the romance scene, the church scene played with music ALOT. the beach scene's music was warm.
3. LANGUAGE
they used english! they used very little dialogue, which was good because it might hav turned out bad if too much was used, with very SIMPLE style of english, monosyllable words that were straight to the point.
4. COSTUME
Costumes suited characters very well,
Lump - torn and tattered to show strength
Trickly - tatoo-ed like sleeve to show sneakiness
(the charming guy) - tighter fitting to show profile of body
(the old) - looser outfit to show age and malnutrition maybe?
Joker - Normal. He was the clumsy everyday likeable character
Gundog - police outfits were POLICEOUTFITS
Nurses - All white. universally recognised
SWAT - Alike real swat teams you see on TV
Nuns - Like nuns.
-----THE COSTUMES USED WERE VERY GENERALLY RECOGNISED AS WHAT THEY WERE-------
5. SCENE/PROP
Maneuvered very well using the "running away" act. The puppet theme was a very create idea and they didn't mind showing slight costume change in that one. Props were smoothly introduced in and scenes were changed by the "large book" displayed behind.
6. ENSEMBLE
they worked SO WELL together as a group. especially in the beginning when they were "working out" with the police, their timing was perfect, when the police turned his back, the others made faces behind him and so on.......THAT timing had to be ACCURATE. alot of trust in the group. and the part where two guys were playing the role of one patient on a bed in the hosp. TALK ABOUT COLLABORATION!
7. INTERACTION WITH AUDIENCE
ALOT of this. they even had a "hostage" to come up being strapped with dynamite and an audience member was flung a shirt. They also thanked the audience verbally which i feel went a little unappropriate, sorry but the guy shouldn't talk to much. Also, the referring to one of the audience as a FROG was funny.
8. FACIAL EXPRESSION/PHYSICAL MOVEMENT
since there were few dialogue most of the communication with the audience was using actions and facial expression. They did this really well, esp during the "slow-mo" parts. Hence, the facial expressions were really obvious as well during the slow mo parts. During the last snippet in the church scenes, the facial expression had to be prominent because the snippets were short and the msg to the audience had to be precise. The physical movement was ALOT, during the exercise scene, the chasing around in the hosp, the SWAT, the dancing, the everything.....had alot of well defined movement.
9. CHARACTER
these were well defined. Lump in the first part where he hammers down the car with a large hammer, and he has the most brains. The old guy is swift and this was shown during the scene running in the prison away form the spotlights. No doubt Joker was clumsy and totally opposite from everyone. Tricky was indeed perverted by squeezing everyone's butt and The Flirt always showed stomach during poses.
10. The only problem.
whats with the book?! and the love scene?!
