The brilliant product which produced by Tarragon Theatre at 2016 and directed by Peter Pasyk, was called “The Circle.” A Canadian play writer, Geoffrey Simon Brown, spend his time on writing The Circle and most of his effort had been put into creating the different types of characters, the teens, in this interesting product. With only six actors, the director and Geoffrey arranged the tiny stage to tell a significant story of the teens.
The first amazing point of The Circle was the diversity of the character setting. The six characters in the play were totally different in their background setting. None of them have any other common point, but that they were all teenagers. Amanda is a genius and Ily is a drug dealer (Geoffrey Simon Brown).
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To declare The Circle’s genre, it was a tragedy. The lonely and isolated character, Mutt died at the end and the other five teens would have to live with this hidden secret and guiltiness. When the incident happened, what was each of their reaction and what they decided to do? That progress and the final decision was it related to the religion or growth environment, was it right or wrong, good or bad? These kinds of questions had been established at the end of the play and after watching the play, no matter what people would think about these questions. Lauren Gillett, The Circle’s watcher as well had post similar thing on the Theatromania web, “I have with how we are driven, as a culture, by stories of good and evil; good people and bad people; heroes and villains” (Lauren Gillett). However, there was no correct answer to this question and each viewer might figure out their own different answer to this. Nevertheless, the meaning of this play was establishing this question and let people think about this tragedy; why and how it happened, the incident’s essence. “I think this play is an attempt to tackle that head on and ask; how and why do bad things happen if no one is inherently good or bad?” (Lauren …show more content…
The unique and different characters painted the piece in color and the stage arrangement made the piece shiny as if putting the wax on the floor. Finally, by establishing the question without an answer, Geoffrey successfully pieced up the significant and profound product. Although the scene which Mutt died was quite dark and bloody, The Circle was still a very good material which could use to study or view; The Circle could be both teaching material for theater study’s students and the life teacher of teenagers. In addition, The Circle was a piece of work which would make the watchers think about lives,
It is imperative to understand the significance of the profound effects these elements have on the audience’s response to the play. Without effective and accurate embodiments of the central themes, seeing a play becomes an aimless experience and the meaning of the message is lost. Forgiveness and redemption stand as the central themes of the message in The Spitfire Grill. Actors communicate character development through both nonverbal and verbal cues; their costumes serve as a visual representation of this development by reflecting the personal transformation of each character. In the case of The Spitfire Grill, set design is cut back to allow for the audience’s primary focus to be on the actors and their story. Different from set design, the use of sound and lights in The Spitfire Grill, establishes the mood for the play. In other words, every theatrical element in a play has a purpose; when befittingly manipulated, these elements become the director’s strongest means of expressing central themes, and therefore a means of achieving set objectives. Here again, The Spitfire Grill is no exception. With the support of these theatrical elements, the play’s themes of forgiveness and redemption shine as bright as the moon on
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intended to help reinforce the importance of God and religion people's lives (Everyman). The play
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