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    Drama: Ruby Moon

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    How has Cameron Malcher used dramatic forms‚ performance styles‚ techniques and conventions to communicate strong social and personal issues in his production of Ruby Moon? Contemporary Australian theatre mainly focuses on the reflection of the ‘real’ Australia and communicating to the audience real and modern issues/ideas that respond to the social climate and community. As well as that‚ CAT tries to give marginalized voices a voice that is heard. Cameron Malcher has used dramatic forms‚ performance

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    their ideas.  Ruby Moon‚ a mysterious and eerie play written by Matt Cameron explores presentational theatre aspects and elements of absurdism. Cameron has used dramatic forms‚ performance styles‚ techniques and conventions such as symbolism‚ a setting that is everlasting‚ transformational acting and more. The use of these techniques explores the social and personal issues of suburban paranoia‚ identity and grief/loss. Cameron uses many elements to portray the ‘fairytale image’. “Ruby Moon is about a

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    playwrights of both Ruby Moon By Mat Cameron and Stolen By Jane Harrison use dramatic forms‚ performance styles and techniques to establish strong personal and social tensions between characters in both plays. Social issues are anything that effects a large part of society for example‚ the stolen generation‚ suburban paranoia‚ discrimination ect where as personal issues refer to issues that affect an individual in relation to things like grief‚ loss and identity. The play “Ruby Moon” by Matt Cameron

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    Ruby Moon by Sam Stopforth Ruby Moon written by Matt Cameron in 2003 is a presentational non-realistic‚ contemporary Australian drama with representational elements in reference to its development of characters. The style is also that of a psychodrama as it exposes the gargantuan holes in Ray and Sylvie’s state of mind as the story unfolds their psychological flaws become more and more conspicuous to the audience. It also takes on the style of an absurdist drama as this means that a realistic

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    Ruby Moon

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    When reading the play "Ruby Moon" it is easy to pick up on the personal and social tensions between characters. The descriptive nature of the stage directions and the very act of reading as opposed to just seeing on stage‚ being able to take time to look over each line‚ means that a reader can see which scenes accentuate the tension between both Ray and Sylvie or the characters they have created. Stage directions in the play plainly describe when a pause on stage is to be tense‚ or what the vibe

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    Ruby Moon

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    Ruby Moon’s narrative structure can be described as episodic. This episodic narrative is significant to the character development and to the advancement of the plot through several ways. The episodic narrative slowly gives away the many paradoxes of Ray and Sylvie‚ and reveals these two main characters through Dulcie‚ Dawn‚ Sid‚ Sonny Jim etc. The condensed format of the play allows the audience to grow organically alongside the characters‚ slowly developing in front of their eyes. It also advances

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    Ruby Moon Analysis

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    director and dramaturge for a fully mounted production of‚ Ruby Moon by Matt Cameron for a festival with a focus on Australian society I must select a relevant scene for an audience to promote the entire play. Ruby Moon was written in 2003 by Matt Cameron (1969)‚ a Melbourne playwright who was heavily “influenced by headlines in the newspaper” regarding missing children which sparked many of his plot lines. His plays‚ in particular Ruby Moon‚ comment on the notion of a decimated community where there

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    Ruby Moon Monologue

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    Analysis of Ruby Moon Ruby Moon is set in Flamming tree grove‚ about a couple Ray and Sylvie who’s child Ruby goes missing. The worried parents continue to spend all their days and nights trying to piece together any information they can find about their missing daughter Ruby. As they review everything they know about the case the story turns into a detective inquest‚ they question all the eccentric characters on the street to try and seek clues as to what actually happened to their daughter Ruby. The

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    DRAMA ESSAY Breanna Burgess Australian theatre practitioners use various performance styles‚ techniques and dramatic conventions to help portray their ideas to their audiences and make them feel a particular way to the ideas presented in a play. Without the use of these styles‚ techniques and conventions it wouldn’t be possible for the practitioners to emphasise their ideas. In the play ‘Ruby Moon’ Matt Cameron the playwright uses various techniques such as symbolism‚ transformational acting

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    Ruby Moon Essay

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    The individual experiences found in Australian society are the fear of the unknown‚ grief and loss‚ life in a ‘cul-de-sac’ and identity. Matt Cameron explores these ideas in the play Ruby Moon through the use of cyclical structure‚ Absurd and Artaud theatre and transformational acting as well as the elements of production to convey the experiences to the audience. The prevailing cultural‚ historical and political contexts in Australia influenced him to write the play‚ which is a fusion of non-realism

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