Theatre Royal in Winchester production of 1984 :: Drama

Theatre Royal in Winchester production of 19841984 Evaluation===============On the nineteenth November 2002 myself, and a group of year eleven studentswent to the Theatre Royal in Winchester to watch a play named 1984.The plays principal(prenominal) theme was about a society creation treated unfairly andnot being up to(p) to have rights or individuality. It showed people beingextremely restricted on what they could do both physically andmentally.Watching it, it made me feel halcyon to have the rights I have andthat I am not forced on what I can do. The director wanted youwhen watching, to feel uncomfortable and distressed as you werewatching 1 individual being torment. The to a greater extent torture shown, the much privileged I felt to possess the rights I do have. A variety oftechniques were use to enforce the powerful essence this playpresented. At the beginning, a group of soldiers pointed at theaudience and shouted Die Die continuously, which made you feelthreatened an d also at the same fourth dimension involved within the play.The set was quite basic yet effective. every(prenominal) the facial expressions featured twolarge wooden walls, which were moved for different strokes. These wallswere used as a technique to change scene. When a revolutionary scene was startedthe walls would be spun round to illustrate a new scene, which wasvery effective. end-to-end the play short videos were shown for avariety of reasons. These included emphasizing a point within theplay, to give new information to the audience or to add to the dramatic effect of a particular scene.Various luminance 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 andincreased dramatic effect to a scene, for example when soliloquies areused. An additional lighting mode used was to flash bright lights atthe audience to illustrate a scene change. This was very effective asafterwards a new scene was taking place. As well as lightingtechniques, the support used were very successful in making the scenemore exciting and attention grabbing. One prop used was a onomatopoeicelectric 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 deprived of their rights and wanted the samething, freedom.