PIXIE DOBBS
STUDENT NO 220135729
THEA321 ASSIGNMNET 2
MAJOR SCRIPT AND EXEGESIS
MERGING SHADOWS
Merging Shadows
Characters:
TOM: A man in his twenties
LIESEL: A woman in her twenties
OLD WOMAN: An old woman
SCENE 1:
TOM and LEISEL sit DCS in chairs placed back-to-back, side on to audience under spotlights one for each character. A large rectangular table is placed DSOP covered in laundry. An OLD WOMAN with a rotary telephone on a small table sits DSL in a rocking chair facing the audience, also under a spotlight. TOM also has a telephone in his hand.
TOM walks on to an unlit stage, using a Zippo lighter to light his way across the stage. He is dressed entirely in black including a black balaclava with only the eyeholes and mouth visible. He stops when he reaches DC.
When TOM speaks he always addresses the audience, …show more content…
In order to further improve the script I would add more visual clues to the characters conditions by interetextualising moments of Chapter two, The Hospital from Naked Lunch (ref) into the scene where the old woman tries to give Leisel pills, the old woman would become a nurse for this scene. Naked lunch follows loose tangential ideas based around Burrows’ heroin addiction. This text affords plenty of opportunities to intertextualize with Merging Shadows.
This was a play that I felt could go on a lot longer, the difficulties I experienced were the choices I had to make for the characters particularly symbolic or visual metaphors. I had to make a choice on their significance to the play? Or does it detract from the plot? Once I had adopted expressionist themes into Merging Shadows, I then faced the danger of creating a story so obscure and irrelevant in plot that the audience cannot comprehend the
STUDENT NO 220135729
THEA321 ASSIGNMNET 2
MAJOR SCRIPT AND EXEGESIS
MERGING SHADOWS
Merging Shadows
Characters:
TOM: A man in his twenties
LIESEL: A woman in her twenties
OLD WOMAN: An old woman
SCENE 1:
TOM and LEISEL sit DCS in chairs placed back-to-back, side on to audience under spotlights one for each character. A large rectangular table is placed DSOP covered in laundry. An OLD WOMAN with a rotary telephone on a small table sits DSL in a rocking chair facing the audience, also under a spotlight. TOM also has a telephone in his hand.
TOM walks on to an unlit stage, using a Zippo lighter to light his way across the stage. He is dressed entirely in black including a black balaclava with only the eyeholes and mouth visible. He stops when he reaches DC.
When TOM speaks he always addresses the audience, …show more content…
In order to further improve the script I would add more visual clues to the characters conditions by interetextualising moments of Chapter two, The Hospital from Naked Lunch (ref) into the scene where the old woman tries to give Leisel pills, the old woman would become a nurse for this scene. Naked lunch follows loose tangential ideas based around Burrows’ heroin addiction. This text affords plenty of opportunities to intertextualize with Merging Shadows.
This was a play that I felt could go on a lot longer, the difficulties I experienced were the choices I had to make for the characters particularly symbolic or visual metaphors. I had to make a choice on their significance to the play? Or does it detract from the plot? Once I had adopted expressionist themes into Merging Shadows, I then faced the danger of creating a story so obscure and irrelevant in plot that the audience cannot comprehend the