Term Papers on Blackrock

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Blackrock
Year 12 DramaAssignment
This essay will thouroughly examine the performance of the play “Blackrock”, which was written by Nick Enright.  The King Street Players will be assesed on their use of tension, symbol and the elements of mood within two selected scenes in the play.

The play is about a small town named Blackrock.  It looks at the relationships and trust of a group of residents within the area.  It involves a teenage girl named Tracy Warner who gets raped and killed at a party on a beach.  The residents of Blackrock then voice their feelings and try to cope with the death of one of their closest friends.  The scenes that will be analysed will be scene number seventeen, which is the scene where Tiffany gets doughnuts thrown at her by Ricko and scene number twenty-four, where Jared finds out that his mother has had her breast removed.

Tension is an important part of a performance.  It makes it more realistic and contributes to a more interesting play.  The scene  where Jared finds out about his mum having breast cancer really lacked tension and this was shown through a number of poorly thought out actions and decisions.  The stage consisted of two sections, an upper level, which was where the rock was, and a lower level, which was where the beach, Jared’s room and other parts of the performance took place.  The decision to have the stage split into two different sections was not effective.  For example, when Jared and his mother Diane were in their last scene together, they were seperated.  Jared was on the upper portion of the stage and Diane was on the lower portion of the stage, Enright intended this to be a very tense moment between a mother and her son.  Instead the tension of relationships was lost due to the fact that Jared did not touch her breast.  It was later revealed that the reason for this was that the actor Kharlia Beck who played Diane was too young and so was exempt from being touched.

Another dissapointing use of tension was in the scene where Tiffany gets doughnuts thrown at her by Ricko.  When Tiffany gave the bag of doughnuts to Ricko he had to waste time opening it because it was in a blue plastic bag which was tied in a knot.  This destroyed the tension that this event was supposed to convey.  A clear bag or a box would have been a better alternative because it would allow the audience to see the doughnuts.  Also backround noise could be heard which made it difficult to here the lines that the actors were saying on stage.  This cont...

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