distinctive experiences

The Distinctively Visual techniques are intrinsically critical to communicate between the composers' ideas and goals to the audiences' of their texts. The goal of these techniques are for the explicit purpose to allow the audience to visualise the events with a powerful sense of realism , provoking a meaningful and significant insightful understanding and perspective of the world. Thus , the composers' often makes it a personal objective to influence the world stage on societal matters and issues of unwarranted or unreasonable conduct or thought. In John Misto's play , The Shoe Horn Sonata , the use of literal , visual and dramatic techniques validates the intolerable and unjust ordeals and sufferings of those civilians in times of war. The play was written with the distinctive reasons to commemorate and educate the audience to respond appropriately to their government's mismanagement of these peoples' rights and compensation as a consequence of their improper and immoral experiences.

Firstly , the medium of the Distinctively Visual articulates the tragedies of war through Misto's dramatic techniques ,which isolates and demoralises civilian prisoners of war from the contemporary world . In “The Shoehorn Sonata” , Misto effectively manipulates the visual , sound and aural imagery to reinforce Sheila's vivid account of the fall of Singapore and the failed evacuation reaching a dramatic turning point, as the Japanese mercilessly advance further into the Asia-Pacific region , directing the responders' attention to the protagonists' exposure to a hopeless and unforgiving environment , separating the audience from an unknown setting. In Act one Scene three , Sheila vividly recounts the sinking of the Giang Bee and how she “remembers...the tiny boats that really sailed and dolls with eyes that opened and stared....Whenever [she] could [she'd] yelled for help. But the night was so dark and...nobody came” , the dramatic irony presented by Sheila's