with the elements on stage can also heavily imply meaning – a doll standing on a well-lit stage with happy nursery rhymes would have different air than the same doll standing on a shadowy stage‚ a haunting Greensleeves playing in the background. In Ruby Moon‚ multi-media plays an essential role in lending mood to the audience member – the recurring use of song and sound effects‚ and contrasting well-lit scenes and shadowy‚ unrealistic ones allows for an ever-evolving space. I found‚ as an audience member
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influenced him to write Ruby Moon? * Matt Cameron is an Australian playwright who is known for writing Absurdist play. He puts an absurdist lens on things and distorts the everyday. Cameron has a lot of recurring elements in his work. Some of these things are the use of doors‚ disturbing images‚ and the co-existence of comedy and dark moments. In his play Ruby Moon‚ Cameron holds up a lens to suburbia‚ presenting it as distorted and nightmare-ish. * Matt Cameron wrote Ruby Moon in response to a
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Discuss the statement. “Where you live defines your sense of Belonging” The statement‚ “Where you live defines your sense of Belonging” implies that the location and setting in which you live‚ defines your sense of belonging. This is not wrong in saying this‚ but it is not the only aspect to belonging. The ideas of belonging‚ or of not belonging‚ vary. They are shaped within personal‚ cultural‚ historical and social contexts. A sense of belonging can develop from the connections made with people‚
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The concepts of belonging and not belonging have many conflicting aspects and the perceptions and ideas of belonging are shaped into different contexts.Belonging and not belonging is clearly evident upon examining both Bovell’s novel adaptation for the stage ‘The Secret River’ and John Boyle’s novel ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’. The text ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ reveals how belonging can enrich ones relationships and identity conveying concepts of belonging through the representation
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Ruby Moon is a gothic fairytale‚ with the play repeatedly drawing on the familiar tale of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. A parent’s worst nightmare is to have lost their child‚ especially if the neighbour is assumed to have been involved. “The child randomly taken from our midst is an all-too-common tragedy which threatens us in a deeply primal way” (Matt Cameron). In using this element of a crippled fairy-tale with the added form of heightened naturalism‚ there is the constant essence of fears of contemporary
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surrounding world to ultimately impact audiences. Our unit of drama including Matt Cameron’s Ruby Moon and Jane Harrison’s Stolen does exactly this‚ but more specifically reflects on contemporary Australian culture and events. This combined with our experiential learning proved that theatre indeed is a mirror to society. Ruby Moon’s depiction of suburbia and its “dark underbelly that lurks beneath
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time? Who do you like to spend your free time with? What gives you a sense of purpose or boost your self-esteem? Everyone wants to feel like they belong somewhere. People need positive face to face contact with others to feel like they have a sense of purpose. A group you could say you fit in with. If it were not for my friends‚ my life would be dull and boring‚ even a little depressing. I would not have that sense of belonging or support outside of my family‚ and everyone needs time always from
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flaking‚ falling‚ fading. I am fading. My leaves curl and crumble. They are brown‚ dead‚ ugly. But you‚ you are a beautiful tree‚ whose branches stretch across the sky‚ far and wide. Whose leaves are a bright‚ luminescent green in the spring‚ and a rich‚ ruby red in the autumn. Your leaves fall in the winter‚ but by the summer you are you again. There are no such things as seasons in my life. It is just winter. Loneliness. I wish I was planted next to you. Though‚ we would make an odd couple wouldn’t we
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The plays we perform often display a frightening view of who we are. How are playwrights able to do this in Ruby Moon and Stolen? The frightening view of who we are is explored by Matt Cameron’s Ruby Moon and Jane Harrison’s Stolen‚ where the contemporary Australian theatrical practice is used to explore dark issues. The play Ruby Moon is a response to the current epidemic within Australian society; the fear of losing a child‚ and is concerned with life in suburbia‚ and Stolen by Jane Harrison
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The texts studied in class‚ Matt Cameron’s Ruby Moon prove to have great potential for being performed on a thrust stage. When presented with a space such as this‚ it allows the director to be exposed to a vast array of ideas‚ conventions and concepts that would not be effective on a proscenium arch stage. Through this space‚ the director is able to break through all traditional styles of classic shoe box theatre; creating a unique experience for the audience as opposed to just a spectacle. It cracks
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