... words we all share the great intellectual experience. We should understand that the members of theatrical production such as playwrights, directors and actors have different intellectual experience than the members of the audience. It is certain that my theatrical intellectual experience as a member of ... as well as other members of the production are associated with bringing the play to life. Throughout this process playwrights, directors and actors make different intellectual choices. Combination and mixture of these intellectual choices must ultimately create a positive synergy, wher...

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... the loneliness the characters are feeling at the time. The set design proves to be very flexible throughout the first act. In the last scene, the props onstage help the actors visually create a sense of chaos and despair. The champagne glasses are hurled across the stage, sofa pillows are thrown about, and countless pages of sheet music scatter all over the ... lights flashed up and down with emotional opera music sounding throughout the theatre, which added to the frantic feelings. Although this part of the design was mostly created by the actors, it still has a huge impact on those wa...

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... the production begins. You know something is not quite as it should be when characters read from scripts. So, one would assume. In this case it is crucial to the actors' continuance that every word they say comes off the page. Otherwise the government microphones hidden around the couple's kitchen will detect that they are not a normal couple after all, rather ... taking turns with the microphone in a couples' contest on the karaoke machine. The scene is both a bit neurotic and conspicuous, utilizing the high spirited aliases and cheery music as the ultimate mask for their fatal conspir...

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... was that of intermingling action with songs. Examples of this technique in contemporary theatre can be seen in plays such as Woza Albert. Songs integrated into onstage action allow the actors to step out of the roles they are demonstrating and address the audience directly, becoming the characters way of justifying their motives or explaining themselves. The Brechtian technique of making ... think about the existence of man and the injustices and prejudices of the time. Fugard aim with this was making audiences aware of degradation and dehumanising of people and the ultimate transcenden...

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