Fantasy in Theatre

Fantasy in Theatre

In preperation for our performance on the above subject, we firstly

listened to several pieces of fantasy music as a guided visualisation

in which we were asked to imagine going through different doors and to

visualise what was behind them. This then inspired us to experiment

with diferent stylistic devices to include in our performance.

We were given two pieces of text that was goin to be the scope for our

piece of Drama, they were:

A Midsummer Night's Dream - A play by William Shakespeare. Era wise,

there were no problems with using this, as Shakespeare is timeless and

can be set in any period of history, including modern day. This

particular play is set in the dream like world of fairies. The Lord of

the fairies, Oberon, has an argument with his lover, Titiania, over a

young boy she has adopted after the death of her waiting woman. Oberon

wants her to hand over the child to him, Titania refuses. Oberon

decides to send Puck to fetch a magic flower, the juice of which,

dropped into Titanias' eyes will make her fall in love with the first

thing she sees in order to trick her. He hopes that this will distract

her so he can take the boy.

The Jabberwocky - This is a poem written by Lewis Carroll (from

Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872) It tells

of the defeat of a mythical monster. By reading the text, we can see

that it doesn't really make much sense, but we can make some sense of

the words by their sounds.

In our group, we started discussing our ideas then looked at the two

texts and fitted our ideas around them.

In our performance, we decided to have good and evil involved, we had

2 dream masters and 4 other people. 2 of which were taken by the evil

dream master who gave them nightmares, the other 2 were taken by the

good dream master who fulfilled their fantasies. The 4 characters had

there own dream, one wanted everything they asked for, another wanted

to be an Indian, another wanted to remain popular and successful at

school, and lastly the focal point was on the character who wanted to

see her Mother again because she passed away. We used the idea out of

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' where Titania was put asleep, in our

play,we also took the idea of having 2 dream masters from the

characters Oberon and Puck. The dream master puts the 4 characters to

sleep using his powers.

The first 3 characters have there dream or fantasy then the girl who