The most memorable part of a play that a person remembers when he or she leaves the theater are the people that came together as a group to make the production happen. The scenery, lighting, and special effects should not overpower the performance of the actors. It also should not determine whether or not a play is successful. Theatre productions such as You Tweet My Face Space, Home Chat, The Curious Incident of the dog in the Nighttime, Cats, and Peter Pan Goes Wrong are examples of plays that had wonderful playwrights and performers. Some of these productions used good supportive measures to make the play successful and some unfortunately used measures that overpowered the talent of the people in the show. It is very difficult to know where …show more content…
This production was originally a book and was made into a play by Simon Stephens. The actors he casted such as Joseph Ayre, who played the main character Christopher, were perfect for the production (About the Show). He was able to correctly portray the life of a child with autism and how the brain of an autistic child operates. The audience was really able to feel all of the emotions and struggles that he had to go through on an everyday basis. It is very difficult to act out the symptoms of a disorder that many people don’t understand. An additional actor that added to the play was Nicolas Tennant who played Ed Boone, Christopher’s father (About the Show). He was full of emotions of anger and displayed to the audience how much patience and calmness the parents of an autistic child need to make the relationship between them work. Where the production could have been better were in the category of the set and the lighting. It was overwhelming and took away from parts of the actors performance. The role of the lightning and video designers were taken by Paule Constable and Finn Ross (About the Show). The use of the set, props, lighting and sound in a production should all be supportive and add depth to each of the characters roles. The lighting and sound were obnoxious and distracted the audience from the acting that was going on. Although the set looked really interesting it was way too much. The play could have been just as successful with a less “flashy” set and simpler special
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Burns was a interesting and creative production that was thrilling to go see The three main parts of this production involved lighting, costumes, and sets and props. The way she produced the play was marvelous. The lighting was great because it really gave the audience a better understanding of the scene. I thought the lighting was cue for every act in this production. The costumes in this play were, also key because it showed the different time periods throughout the play. Act one through three was almost a century apart so it was very important that the costumes symbolized that. Sounds and music was my favorite part of this production because it really helped the audience identify things that they wouldn’t have identified if those sounds used weren’t used. I thought that was the most effective tool the cast members used to produce this play. Overall, Mr. Burns was a very effective production because the use of lighting, costumes, and
Mark Haddon, the author of the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, explores that perspicacity does not hinge upon logical interpretation of one’s surroundings for an autist. He shows this through Christopher’s, the autistic first person narrator, keen interest in science, behavior towards social interaction, and attitude towards external events.
One of its numerous strengths was the costuming and set. This musical would not have been the same had these elements not come together to transport the viewer. In addition to the costuming and the set, the actors were very well cast. Each actor was in a role that fit them and they portrayed their characters very well. For example, the man who played Glen really seemed like a greedy Wall Street worker. The choreography was also well done. It fit true to the style of dance in the 1980s and added to the immersion experience. The only thing that could have made this experience better would be to add more music. This may just be a personal preference, but when I see a musical I like for the music to be central like it is in Hamilton or Les Miserables. However, this musical was very good and not much could be added to enhance the
In this book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night time, Mark Haddon writes about Christopher John Francis Boone who is an autistic child. Throughout this story Christopher attempts to solve a murder case of his neighbor’s poodle. Christopher wakes up one day at seven minutes past midnight, and he notices the next-door neighbor’s dog laying on the ground. So he decides to go over and check out what happened, soon he found a garden fork sticking out of a dog named Wellington. Since Christopher likes murder mystery novels, he decided to write his own murder mystery novel starting with finding out what happened to Wellington. Throughout his attempt in solving the mystery of the murder of Wellington, several hidden secrets erupted and were revealed to Christopher.
Both writing pieces, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon, and The Wave, by Todd Strasser, express several emotions throughout the story. Due to Christopher John Francis Boone’s autism in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, he only experiences simple and conventional emotions, such as fear, happiness, sadness, etc.. His final encounter with happiness in the book occurred at the tail end of the book, where he states, “And I got the results of my maths A level and I got an A grade, which is the best result, and it made me feel like this…”, followed by a standard drawing of a smiling face. This expresses Christopher’s obvious happiness with many things, such as his discovery of the Wellington’s murderer,
On Nov 18 at 8 pm, I watch the play known as the “Peter and the Starcatcher” at my school West Valley College theater. This play production directed by Carol Fischer and written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. From my first thought of this play, it’s humorous for the audience to see, and it also explains how everything in the Peter Pan had begun. It shows the true story of how the nameless boy started to become Peter Pan in the first place. It originally was written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson did show better perspectives on how it all begins with Peter and Wendy (play). It also started with a nameless boy who started to call Peter Pan, the Lost Boys, and Pirates, especially with Black Stache (later become Captain Hook), and also there
Relationships can only survive through adapting to constant change. Without that aspect, they would not last. In Mark Haddon’s novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a boy with Aspergers goes through life surrounded by mystery, dishonesty, and dysfunctionality. Because of this, secrets are revealed, relationships are changed, and the connection between family is brought into a new light. Through these events, the boy and his family discover and rediscover their ties with each other. In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the author demonstrates that the ability to adapt and change is the most essential characteristic in life because it strengthens relationships, as illustrated through Christopher, his mother
As in all genres, the musicals have had its share of failures. Some worthy dramas have been pressed into service and musicalized and sometimes butchered in the process, and audiences have had to watch a fine play diluted into a mediocre musical. But the successes have been many and spectacular and they have left a long lasting effect on the American art and culture.
While trust is a somewhat common theme in modern novels, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime manages to portray how it affects people in their day to day lifestyle. The book tells the story of Christopher Boone a young boy with autism and his murder mystery novel about the murder of his neighbor's dog. Why this novel is significant is because Mark Haddon tells the story that many young people with autism, like Christopher, live everyday and who’s view on life and the idea of trust and understanding of the world is drastically different than any teenager.
The book “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” talks about a curious boy with autism whose name is Christopher John Francis Boone. Christopher tries to solve a case of Mrs. Shears,his neighbor, dogs skeptical death. Christopher lives only with his father. His father tells him that his mother died in the hospital, but she really didn't die. She is still alive and is living with Mrs. Shears ex-husband. The reason why Christopher’s mother isn’t living with him anymore is because she cheated on her husband with Mr. Shears. Christopher starts to slowly understand what was happening then he goes out trying to find his mom in London.
The curious incident of the dog in the night time was narrated in first person by Christopher Boone however If it was narrated in third person the audience would not have understood the way Christopher was feeling. Communication, Social Interactions, Relationship’s and Christopher’s Autism spectrum disorder were some of the main areas expressed in the novel.
Imagine this following scene: You are sitting in a dark, fairly crowded large room. There are hundreds of other people, in hundreds of other seats surrounding you. In front of you, there is a large stage, with people acting out a play. Lights, music, and different sound effects set the mood of the play for you to understand more clearly what is going on. With these certain conventions, viewer can get a real grasp of a story in which several actors are trying to portray. However, it hasn’t always been this easy to enjoy a play in a theater. Theatre and plays go back as far as “b.c.” times.
Theatre will always survive in our changing society. It provides us with a mirror of the society within which we live, and where conflicts we experience are acted out on stage before us. It provides us with characters with which we identify with. The audience observes the emotions and actions as they happen and share the experience with the characters in real time.
For thousands of years, people have been arguing that theatre is a dying art form. Many people think theatre is all just cheesy singing and dancing or just boring old Shakespeare, but there is much more to theatre than those two extremes. Theatre is important to our society because it teaches us more about real life than recorded media. Theatre has been around for thousands of years and began as a religious ceremony that evolved into an art form that teaches about the true essence of life. Theatre can incorporate profound, and provocative, observations of the human condition that can transcend time; lessons found in Greek plays can still be relevant to the modern world. People argue that the very essence of theatre is being snuffed out by modern