Mixture of Realism with Non-Realism in John Godber's Play Bouncers
John Godber was born in 1956, in Upton, West Yorkshire. He graduated
from Bretton Hall College, Yorkshire, England in 1978 as a qualified
teacher of drama and English and went on to an M.A. in Theatre at the
University of Leeds where began to write, direct and act in a
succession of increasingly successful productions. His most famous and
critically acclaimed play is Bouncers, which was nominated for Comedy
of the Year in 1985 and won seven Los Angeles Critics Circles Awards
and five awards in Chicago in 1987. The play is about a group of
Bouncers, who, through a mix of realism and Non realism, tell the
story of what happens in the discos and after the bars are closed.
In the first act, we are introduced to the characters: Judd, Ralph,
Les and Eric. While there is dialogue between the characters, it is
not in the context of a realistic scene. Instead, the style of the
dialogue is of a Greek drama, or in chorus style Here, Godber uses
non-realism in order to capture the audiences attention. The advantage
of using Non-realism in a play is that there are no boundaries;
anything can be included in the play. During our practical for the
first act, we had several ideas of how we could address the audience.
The fact that this is non-realism was a huge advantage to us, as we
could perform in any way that we felt best suited the play. We decided
that the scene should reflect the way we would perform. All the
characters are very excited and happy in the first scene, so we used
this in our body language and voices. The result is a fun performance
that the audience could interrupt in any form they wanted. Also, we
were able to perform the dialogue in a way which would reflect the
atmosphere of the scene. We also added some actions with some of the
lines:
Hip gipp hop bop
Drink that slop and don't you stop.
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