Playwriting can be a difficult task when one wants to reach out to the audience and become attached to the story. A way of conveying a story to the audience is by finding inspiration and building off of it. According to the Canadian Stage’s website, Jordan Tannahill’s Concord Floral is a re-imagining of The Decameron, a novel written by Giovaccni Boccaccio. In The Decameron, the story tells of seven girls and three boys who take refuge to a secluded villa outside of Florence, Italy to avoid the plague. There they tell each other stories to pass the time as they are there. In Concord Floral, the play tells the story of ten teenagers who escape to an abandoned greenhouse known as Concord Floral and the events that unfold around it (Maga 2016). As the play is being presented to the audience, there are multiple similarities to the novel that …show more content…
One significant similarity being, just like the novel the play also features seven girls and three boys. Like the secluded villa in the novel the teenagers ‘escape’ to an abandoned green house in the middle of a field in Vaughan, Ontario. How is The Decameron relevant to the modern era, specifically to teenagers? Rather than just writing a play about teenagers, Jordan Tannahill is able to convey a powerful story with the inspiration from The Decameron which accurately depicts the struggles teenagers today face. In the programme given out at the beginning of the play, Jordan Tannahill wrote a note about his experience in writing the play. The playwright’s note explains why he wrote the play and the inspiration he got from The Decameron. Tannahill explains in the programme, “There was such a tangible connection in [his] mind
The first half of the play concerns a celebration - twins Girlie Delaney and Dibs Hamilton are celebrating their 80th birthdays, and with the gathering of their families comes the eruption of simmering resentments and anxieties about the future of Dibs and Farley Hamilton's farm, Allandale. The second half starts with a funeral and portrays the shattering of the tenuous links that held the family together.
The students read Romeo and Juliet and do not see the love story that society would have them see. Instead they examine what lies beyond this. They see a story of secrecy, sex, murder, suicide, and disease. All of these things are found within the play, but are masked by poetry and romance. For example, these students see Romeo and Juliet as a story of "whispering, tiptoeing, making love, and (children) driven mad in the dark." To the "normal" reader this is romantic. It is viewed as a story about the most amazing kind of love imaginable - true love ending in tragedy.
In the early 16th century the Netherlands experienced what was called “tulip mania” this was the beginning of the nations love for flora and foliage (Taylor 13). The result of this impressive flower invasion was a society that took a historical turn from which the results still remain today. Flower merchants, botanists and floral still life artists, were occupations that were an accurate reflection of the Netherlands demands (Brown). An interesting example of a life that was effected by, and devoted to the archiving of the flower craze was Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) the 17th century Dutch flower painter. Rachel Ruyschs’ career straddled the 17th and 18th century, and her stunningly accurate floral pieces reflect the maturing, yet evolving art of floral still life painting (“Rachel Ruysch: Bibliography”). Ruyschs’ Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop (1716) is an excellent example of a painting that appropriately represents the genre of art that was created solely through specific societal events.
Many popular novels are often converted into television movies. The brilliant fiction novel, Flowers for Algernon written by Daniel Keyes, was developed into a dramatic television film. Flowers for Algernon is about a mentally retarded man who is given the opportunity to become intelligent through the advancements of medical science. This emotionally touching novel was adapted to television so it could appeal to a wider, more general audience. Although the novel and film are similar in terms of plot and theme, they are different in terms of characters.
The theme of the play has to do with the way that life is an endless cycle. You're born, you have some happy times, you have some bad times, and then you die. As the years pass by, everything seems to change. But all in all there is little change. The sun always rises in the early morning, and sets in the evening. The seasons always rotate like they always have. The birds are always chirping. And there is always somebody that has life a little bit worse than your own.
Recently, I had the pleasure of seeing the fall production of Argonautika at the Westmont High School Theater directed by Jeff Bengford and written by Mary Zimmerman. Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation of Argonautika carefully selects which pieces of a Greek story to emphasize, where to begin and end the story, and which characters to feature. Argonautika is very much an ensemble piece, with every actor standing out in multiple roles. Her version focuses on Jason and Medea and begins with an invocation by the chorus that summarizes the story of Helle and Phrixus. The last showing on November 21st of Argonautika by the Westmont High School Performing Arts Department, was exciting beginning to end. Bengford’s production Argonautika greatly captures the intentions of Mary Zimmerman’s playwright into an exciting play for the audience.
It was good setting to get the attention from the audience and also a way to move around or change settings of the play. Although I love this play my small critic for this play was the players. Some others actors had understandable accents but others didn’t. For example, the brother of the servant his accent was confusing because he kept switching his accent from different country languages. This play was really nice it had a little of bit of everything drama, comedy, romance, betrayal. What like about this play it was how they used the dramatic structure the inciting incident and the climax. The inciting incident for this play of musical comedy murders of 1940 was guessing who the killer of the play was because there was tension building up not knowing who the murder was. The climax for this play would be for me finding out who was the murder and just being in shock how everything had change into a new scenario. Overall it was amazing show how it developed and how well an organized transition the play
It was very nice to read something that had a lot of drama and suspense. This story has a mix of everything. It has a bit of suspense, drama, and comedy; therefore, it led it to be a very nice play. The people that would most like this play, has to be people who like suspense, drama, and thriller. These people would like it, because this story has a mix of everything, so the people who like to have a mix in their stories, they will love this story. It will suit them, and will give them a pleasure of reading a nice
...als, botany together with the mathematicians making up the play one of the richest masterpieces of all times. The only tragedy we see in the play is the premature and untimely death of Thomasina Coverly, who dies on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, setting her bedroom in fire. It looks as if she had foreseen her death. The play, Arcadia definitely displays Tom Stoppard’s overwhelming intellectual genius. The play is emotionally and intellectually dense.
reach into the ideas and themes of the play so we will have a good
Filmmaking and cinematography are art forms completely open to interpretation in a myriad ways: frame composition, lighting, casting, camera angles, shot length, etc. The truly talented filmmaker employs every tool available to make a film communicate to the viewer on different levels, including social and emotional. When a filmmaker chooses to undertake an adaptation of a literary classic, the choices become somewhat more limited. In order to be true to the integrity of the piece of literature, the artistic team making the adaptation must be careful to communicate what is believed was intended by the writer. When the literature being adapted is a play originally intended for the stage, the task is perhaps simplified. Playwrights, unlike novelists, include some stage direction and other instructions regarding the visual aspect of the story. In this sense, the filmmaker has a strong basis for adapting a play to the big screen.
The play is about a young woman, Catherine who had been taking care of her father during his last years of life. Anne Heche plays Catherine. Prior to this play, I have never seen Anne Heche in any acting performance. I have to say she did an outstanding job in her portrayal of Catherine. She did a fantastic job of immediately drawing you into Catherine’s world. She aptly portrays the characteristics of a girl who never got a chance to grow up and the slight madness of the genius she inherited from her father. One can easily feel sad for her because after all she gave up all her dreams to take care of her ailing father. Anne Heche plays Catherine so well that it easy for you to fall in love with Catherine and desire only good things for her.
Firstly I would set this play in the 21st century so that a modern audience could relate to it. Algernon, one of the main characters in the play, would live in a luxury apartment in the centre of London, over looking the River Thames. His apartment would have a minimalist theme to it and would be influenced by aesthetic; for example he would have a piece of abstract art on the wall for no reason other than that he thinks it looks nice.
view is from the writer of the play, 3rd person narration. The theme of this
She goes by the name of Waris Dirie, a female Somalian desert nomad who lived to tell her story of pain and emotion growing up as a Somalian woman. The novel ‘Desert Flower’, written by Waris Dirie herself is about the revealing yet inspiring journey of her life, as she was introduced to the ‘Somalian womanhood’, at just the age of five, imagine the brutality on being mutated on just a rock in the middle of the desert, being left alone under a small tree with hardly any shade protecting you from the fiery hot sunrays being let off. Any minute you could die, the cause of death may be being bleed to death or an infection later on causing death. A few years later having an arranged marriage to a sixty year old man you didn’t even know, running away and escaping to England to becoming a model to then later on becoming an ambassador of the UN. (United Nations). These are some of the many experiences Waris Dirie went through during her journey of life.