I listened to Bram Stoker's Dracula, it is a story about a man that travels to London. Throughout this story, we here of different occurrences happening without the visual aid of seeing it. At first Dracula is pictured as a somewhat nice man, with interest of the kindhearted. Slowly evolves into a picturesque dramatization of trials, betrayal, and love.
This play did merit itself in a way that can only be expressed through the introduction of the different characters. I saw each character in my mind very vividly, there wasn’t any questions about any one character in particular. When I envisioned something even the set design I felt the play did really well here in explaining everything through sound. To be honest with you I could even see …show more content…
Since I had no visual aids to go off of. Everyone seemed to be on time with their lines, and hitting their marks properly as far as I could tell. The female voices seemed to have the compassion I would be looking for in good acting, as far as them being in character. I felt all the male voices were spectacular, Dracula was like nothing I’ve ever heard before, the dark, eerie sound was done perfectly. This play reading, I believe was effective to say the least. I feel that all of the timings were done perfectly, the sound effects, the audience was even joining in on the fun, and just laughing at all the eccentricities of the Count. I could only visualize the play from the reading, when there were sound effects. When they were riding in a carriage, or maybe when bats were flying overhead, and their screeching could be heard. Other than that, I couldn’t tell you if we were in a room, or outside standing in a courtyard. I couldn’t visualize the acting aside from that. Every now and again I would feel like I was in the audience watching but only when they were describing an actual place in particular, like London for instance. I think it kind of added to the mystery of this play also, in a sense that since we can’t know everything and have to piece together what we already ascertained from listening to the story. We can now sense the secret life of Dracula and his minions. I don’t know if this was done because we …show more content…
It kind of adds to the eeriness of the who thing. So, I would say that worked as well as the audience in this read as well. The audience helps us to maintain the act of entertainment, when you read horror this can be forgotten from time to time. You forgot that your listening to this dark scary thing sometimes, while your trying to take in all the information about the cast of characters, there plot lines and also how it all is connected, almost like a comic relief in a sense. What else works in this play is that since we all know the story of Dracula we can all kind of form our own opinions of the play in our own time. You could tell here in this play that the reader was really trying to get you to listen to the text as well as taking a different perspective on the whole thing I suppose. I guess this is the part that the actors get to embellish on their own, adding to the direction of the listener. What didn’t work about this play was that without a more pronounced cast you can’t really tell who is talking, or who they are talking to sometimes. It’s probably that as the listener you only get half of the experience. If only we could see the play in person, or maybe even a video.
I believe this would be a good play to see live, because I love this story and it would only get better to see live. It’s almost like watching a movie without any sound, you need to see it for it
This play did merit itself in a way that can only be expressed through the introduction of the different characters. I saw each character in my mind very vividly, there wasn’t any questions about any one character in particular. When I envisioned something even the set design I felt the play did really well here in explaining everything through sound. To be honest with you I could even see …show more content…
Since I had no visual aids to go off of. Everyone seemed to be on time with their lines, and hitting their marks properly as far as I could tell. The female voices seemed to have the compassion I would be looking for in good acting, as far as them being in character. I felt all the male voices were spectacular, Dracula was like nothing I’ve ever heard before, the dark, eerie sound was done perfectly. This play reading, I believe was effective to say the least. I feel that all of the timings were done perfectly, the sound effects, the audience was even joining in on the fun, and just laughing at all the eccentricities of the Count. I could only visualize the play from the reading, when there were sound effects. When they were riding in a carriage, or maybe when bats were flying overhead, and their screeching could be heard. Other than that, I couldn’t tell you if we were in a room, or outside standing in a courtyard. I couldn’t visualize the acting aside from that. Every now and again I would feel like I was in the audience watching but only when they were describing an actual place in particular, like London for instance. I think it kind of added to the mystery of this play also, in a sense that since we can’t know everything and have to piece together what we already ascertained from listening to the story. We can now sense the secret life of Dracula and his minions. I don’t know if this was done because we …show more content…
It kind of adds to the eeriness of the who thing. So, I would say that worked as well as the audience in this read as well. The audience helps us to maintain the act of entertainment, when you read horror this can be forgotten from time to time. You forgot that your listening to this dark scary thing sometimes, while your trying to take in all the information about the cast of characters, there plot lines and also how it all is connected, almost like a comic relief in a sense. What else works in this play is that since we all know the story of Dracula we can all kind of form our own opinions of the play in our own time. You could tell here in this play that the reader was really trying to get you to listen to the text as well as taking a different perspective on the whole thing I suppose. I guess this is the part that the actors get to embellish on their own, adding to the direction of the listener. What didn’t work about this play was that without a more pronounced cast you can’t really tell who is talking, or who they are talking to sometimes. It’s probably that as the listener you only get half of the experience. If only we could see the play in person, or maybe even a video.
I believe this would be a good play to see live, because I love this story and it would only get better to see live. It’s almost like watching a movie without any sound, you need to see it for it