Drama texts (1 Viewer)

[grk_styl]

What texts are the '04ers' doing?

For Australian theatre --> Summer of the 17th Doll & Mother and Son
For Absurd theatre --> Waiting for Godot, Dumb Waiter, Zoo Story

 

[dezzy]

For australian Theatre= Gary's house & The 7 stages of grieving

i dont know about Absurd theatre....

 

[grk_styl]

7 stages of grieving sounds good...it's quite popular as well. Except my stupid school decided to chose a text (mother and son) that had no material on it to help us with our essays!

 

[Tall_gal]

Australian Theatre = Gary's House and No Sugar
American Drama = Speed-the-Plow and A Streetcar Named Desire

 

[dezzy]

the 7 stages of grieving is really interesting..

a lot of dramtic techniques etc to talk about in essays..

i got 9.5/10 for my essay..i was cheerin!!!

 

[Tall_gal]

Have u got heaps of notes for Gary's house??? Its so hard to find stuff on Debra Oswald. My School library has nothing. They havnt done this text before.

 

[dezzy]

yea, ive got a bit...not much thou...my teacher says he'll give it to us when we get back to school...

 

[Tall_gal]

Ive only got a little bit from the standards package. My teacher doesnt know anything. We have already done Contemporary Australian theatre. I have 5 pages of notes for gary's house and 23 pages of notes on 'No Sugar'! if u find any good articles or theory can u let me know. Im fine with No Sugar its just Gary's house that bothers me.

 

[dezzy]

sure!

wat u want articles 4?

 

[Will_Sparky]

Our teacher taught us all four! and told us to use the ones we'd like to.

So...
Aust. Drama = Running Up A Dress, and Gary's House (BECAUSE I HATE IT SO MUCH!!!)

and Meyerhold = NOt sure yet

 

[Tall_gal]

Just anything that could help. My teacher is no help at all. Anything u have or know would be greatly apppreciated dezzy. I just dont feel the notes i have are adequate enough.

 

[rosie rose]

just a pointer- we did 'gary's house' (class of 03) and there is nothing on it- at all. have searched, believe
me! stuff to explore and talk about are the physical metaphor of the house being built on stage (representative of the characters rebuilding their lives and "trying to realise the australian dream"), the archetypal characters
and the themes... good luck with it!

 

[Will_Sparky]

Does anybody else HATE gary's House??! or is it just me?

 

[aLeeOh!]

its just you sparkyyyyy..

 

[Will_Sparky]

Don't start AleeOh! lol

 

[Skillo]

I saw the most appaling moved reading of Gary's House at the New Theatre in Newtown about 2 months ago. It was so bad, it turned me off the play.

*Cringe* It was bad, bad... BAD.

 

[Will_Sparky]

lol... we were meant to go to that! Wait a minute... you went all the way from ALBURY for that! poor thing...

 

[Skillo]

We went up to Sydney for a couple of performances and that was the first one. Luckily we also saw the Threepenny Opera at Belvoir and it was FANNNNTASSSTIC. So it made the trip so so much better.

Btw, love the pic of Jennifer Ehle.

 

[Will_Sparky]

Thanx! i think you were the first to get it straight off

 

[Skillo]

Well, perhaps due to my obsession over the BBC Pride and Prejudice series and the hunky Mr Darcy....awwww.