GCSE Drama essay- Dramatic effectivness of the play peasouper.

Peasouper

On the 3rd of March GCSE students went to the Swan Theatre to see Peasouper. It was a physical theatre performance including only three characters distributively dissipationing multiple roles.

The hall in which it was performed was fairly small, and so the stage space was also quite limited. The audience were posing in a rake in front of the stop over Stage. We were also very close to the actors which make me feel a lot more involved and not so outback(a) from the play.

The perspectivery was very minimalist. There was as little as a long wooden shock and two screens. This made you focus on the dialog and emphasised the quality of the actors skills. The actors employ the screens to change character, as they all played multiple roles, scene and because of lack of space they were used to present movement without real walking back and forth the stage. The Actors went behind the screens and came out the otherwise side this made the play flow easily dumb adding the comic effect as it is simple but telling. The box was placed in the middle of these and expanded the opportunity to deliver the audiences imaginations to run wild.



For example the box was used as a flight of stairs and a bottomless pit these were effective as the characters stood behind the box on their knees, either collapsing as though thy are falling or jolting reject with each steps as though they are walking down stairs.

The only prop used in the play was a ping pong goon. The ping pong ball represented the jewel and also an engagement ring. This was also comical. The position that there was such a restriction in prop up also caused the audience to watch the acting with admiration. The actors...

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