Birdwood-fringe 2013 Essay

Birdwood-fringe 2013 consisted of many presents but the one that re tout ensembley caught my eye was The unholy Infants. The play was cast with previous and current students who attend Birdwood High. Many, if not all have had drama production foulground, working in school productions and the local theatre group TOTTS (Top of the Torrens) productions. Knowing these students, I expected to be wowed from the come out of the closet and my expectations were not let crop up. Right from the start, every character was switched on, working as one, moving as one. They knew where they were meant to be, what they were meant to be doing at every second. Every lights down they knew what support they needed to collect and did it with no noise.Even when one of the props werent collected or in their right place each(prenominal) character chipped in without it being noticed by the earshot to show/point/grab where the prop was. When the butchers (Courtney Bryant-Leray) apron didnt go on as pla nned she still placed it onto her, even so though it was on sideways. Ignoring she had it on wrong, she still went on with her lines and actions as though it was meant to be like that only fixing it when the spotlight was on a fellow cast member.The whole play in general was exciting. utilize lighting changes e.g. green for the forest (Betrice burst) was very smart. Just changing the lights from gold to green alternatively of ending the cyclorama, turning the lights off, setting up the scene so it looks like an actual forest would have been time withering and consequently at the actual end of the scene having to turn the lights off, stage the forest set away then getting the set back to normal would have been an even more waste of time, but instead they changed the set to a tree silhouette whilst the scene was in progress.The zephyr of the entire play was warming, and enjoyable, making the audience feel welcome, without even grammatical construction a word to them. We were always laughing, feeling each and every sense the cast was portraying, when they had a funny moment, we laughed, we were probably laughing most of the time, but when it came to Thingummy Boy scene.The scene Thingummy Boy was serious, the most severe scene in the whole play. During the play each character was go about the audience, making their moves over exaggerated, they emphasised words that were needed, but in the scene of Thingummy Boy they faced away from the audience, not moving or making a sound. It do the scene, sad, and if it had more of a meaning then the other scenes. When they did turn to speak they had no exaggeration, no emphasis in their words, their faces were blank, no smiles yet no frowns. The scene was the one that impacted the audience the most.Even though the play wasnt an original that the group wrote themselves, they made it their own, adding lines and taking actions out. They put their own twist in every scene, in every character. It was a unique play, that was shown beautifully.