Analysis Of Yorkey's Next To Normal

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BSSTC supports Yorkey’s Next to Normal as a contemporary performance, with integration and interactions of disciplines through scenography, evoking critical engagement on cultural curiosities (Etchells, 2002). Typically contemporary performances combine text, dance, physical movement, music, vocal and physical expression, into complex multifunctioning arrangements, which devise hybrids of scenographic work (Carroll, Giles & Jürs-Munby, 2013). The combination of these disciplines is evident in BSSTC’s Next to Normal, combining Yorkey’s confronting script and McKinven’s minimalist layered set and costumes with Suidgeest’s simplistic lighting. Together these elements develop a scenography, which unveil to the audience a highly emotional and psychological