the women who lived through the war as Japanese prisoners of war. The play is a testimony‚ a memorial to their bravery and struggles for survival against all odds‚ including even the lack of recognition by the British of their existence. The Shoe Horn Sonata will only be produced by non government theatres. These theatres are usually low budget. Misto has tried to recreate the reality of the 1940’s. To do this the story is told through the dialogue and interaction of Bridie and Sheila. The use
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In what ways are people and their experiences brought to life through the distinctively visual? People and their experiences in their life are based throughout the challenges and difficulties they face. They may either experience friendship‚ war‚ love or even death. These ideas are shown visually within John Misto’s “The Shoe Horn Sonata” and Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War”. Both texts depict the experiences evident through people‚ places and communities worldwide. Through the portrayal of friendship
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Connecting to others past experiences through distinctively visual elements allows the responder to mentally visualise images evoking an emotional and historical connection with the story‚ as they’re brought to life. “The Shoe Horn Sonata”‚ a play by John Misto establishes these experiences through the eye witnesses of the Australian nurses. In addition to Angelina Jolie’s film “Unbroken”‚ both exemplify dramatic visual elements to convey their survival experiences onto the audience. As the play
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Imagine being mentally tortured‚ beaten and starved to death? Imagine you were taken away from your family and raped till death? Shoe Horn Sonata is an impressive story of courage‚ hope‚ horror and friendship. This play is a tribute to commemorate the bravery of the women and to make their story of survival widely known. The historical context that the story has enables us to learn about the past events and to understand the true meaning of war and its consequences. The play draws on real events
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Distinctively Visual Essay – Shoe Horn Sonata & The Send Off In John Misto’s play ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ (1996) and the poem ‘The Send-Off’ written by Wilfred Owen distinctively visual techniques are used to explore past experiences of war and individuals and society’s perceptions. These concepts are conveyed and explored through the use of distinctively visual techniques such as visual and aural imagery‚ stage directions and dialoged. In ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonta’ distinctly visual techniques are
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composers have created distinctively visual texts to explore a particular point of view” There are a variety of different techniques used in the play “The Shoe Horn Sonata” that enable the text to be distinctively visual in conveying a point of view. Dramatic effects such as music‚ dialogue and flashbacks create the perspective of two women looking back on their memories and experiences of World War 2. Similarly‚ Kenneth Slessor uses distinctively visual elements to aid the description of mateship
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Distinctively Visual Image Page 52 “On the other side of our barbed wire fence were twenty or thirty Aussie men – as skinny as us – and wearing slouch hats. Unlike the Japs‚ they had hairy legs. And they were standing in rows – serenading us.” John Misto created a written visual image that comes through in Act 1 Scene 7 (Page 52). This is brought up in the play when Bridie and Sheila are being interviewed by Rick (Host)‚ they were originally talking about the conditions that they were in‚ how they
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what gives them purpose‚ comfort and strength to carry on. Though after fifty years of the War and of being separated they have no ill feelings toward the Japs but are emotionally torn by their separation. This is the story of The Shoe Horn Sonata. The Shoe-Horn Sonata is characterised by having a two act structure‚ two main time frames‚ two settings and two main characters. The two sets are: the television studio and the motel room. These are visually presented depersonalised and simple‚ allowing
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Distinctively visual texts are able to manipulate the emotions of the audience to influence the responses of a collective group. John Misto‚ the person behind the play The Shoe-Horn Sonata‚ uses his distinctively visual text as a memorial for the Australian Army nurses who died in the war‚ as they were refused one by the government. “I do not have the power to build a memorial. So I wrote a play instead.” This drama illustrates the way the women were treated in the Japanese prisoner of war camps
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you as being weak. This is what the main protagonists of both the play‚ Shoe Horn Sonata by John Mistro and the movie‚ Hunger Games directed by Gary Ross endured. Together with photographs‚ cinematic techniques and symbols‚ these texts represent the devastation of war‚ the bonds of friendship forged during a war and their respective will to survive. Friendship is defined as a relationship between friends. In Shoe Horn Sonata‚ when Sheila and Bridie first meet‚ it seems unlikely that they will ever
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