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Ruby Moon Monologue

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For our group project we (Belis, Ziggy, Liesel and I) chose to perform the Australian play Ruby Moon. As a group we attempted to bring across the mystery and thrill that makes Ruby Moon so successful whilst also allowing the audience to have a clear understanding of whats happening. It is for this reason we decided to perform the first two scenes- the prologue and scene 1 as both scenes follow well back to back and achieve that eerie mood that is portrayed throughout the entirety of the play.
We wanted the audience to get chills and feel on edge during our performance.We wanted people to see the parents of missing children point of view and really feel the anguish and distress they suffer whilst they deal with the grief and doubt of what has happened.One of our main aims was to have the audience be captivated and connect with the wacky and out -there characters we were portraying.During our play we showed this grief by having the characters constantly keeping space between them which also represented the disconnection between the characters particularly in the prologue with Sylvie and Ray. …show more content…

We as a group decided to do two to each scene so we could all fully immerse ourselves into the specific character we decided on. Liesel and I performed as Ray and Sylvie respectively in the prologue. As a pair we decided to change the setting from a lounge room to a kitchen/ dinning room in order to relate more to the text, show more symbolism such as the empty seat at the dinning table and differ from Ziggy and Belis’ set of Doilcy Doil’s lounge room in which our set was side by side

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