Theatre Royal in Winchester production of 1984 :: Drama

Theatre empurpled in Winchester production of 19841984 Evaluation===============On the 19th November 2002 myself, and a group of year el evening studentswent to the Theatre Royal in Winchester to watch a play named 1984.The plays main theme was almost a society existence treated unfairly and non world able to have rights or individuality. It showed people cosmosextremely qualified on what they could do both physically andmentally.Watching it, it do me flavor fortunate to have the rights I have andthat I am not constrained on what I can do. The director wanted youwhen watching, to touch uncomfortable and distressed as you werewatching one individual being tortured. The more torture shown, themore privileged I felt to accept the rights I do have. A variety oftechniques were used to enforce the flop message this playpresented. At the beginning, a group of soldiers pointed at the earshot and shouted Die Die continuously, which made you feelthreatened and also at the equivalen t time involved within the play.The set was quite basic yet effective. All the bursts featured twolarge wooden walls, which were moved for antithetical expectations. These wallswere used as a technique to change scene. When a unfermented scene was startedthe walls would be spun round to embellish a new scene, which was rattling effective. Throughout the play short videos were shown for avariety of reasons. These included punctuate a point within theplay, to give new information to the audience or to add to thedramatic effect of a particular scene. variant punk techniques were used including a spotlight. Aspotlight makes you focus on one particular part of the stage whereusually a scene is being acted. A spotlight can add tension and change magnitude dramatic effect to a scene, for example when soliloquies areused. An additional light source method used was to flash bright lights atthe audience to illustrate a scene change. This was very effective asafterwards a new scene wa s taking place. As well as lightingtechniques, the props used were very successful in making the scenemore exciting and attention grabbing. One prop used was a counterfeitelectric chair. In this scene the main character was being torturedusing the electric chair. The smoke and sounds the chair was makingmade the scene even more dramatic and made you sympathise with himeven more.The main characters included a man named Winston, and a woman calledJulia who has already had already a couple of illegal love affairs.Both characters were take of their rights and wanted the samething, freedom.