Bush theatre, London W12 and on 14 November 2002

'...written with the passion, deep understanding and emotional intelligence of a writer who is not afraid of anything.' - Sunday Times

'an excellent debut' - Financial Times

Stanislavsky 

It was Shelley Silas’ own experience that made her write about this play 'I desperately wanted a baby - which is difficult when you're in love with another woman’

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“Silas implies there is a strong sensual bond between Pete and the sullenly sexy Grace, but never lets it get beyond an unspoken desire.”

Grace is a 15 year old teenager who is pregnant and wants to abort the baby, however Linda is not letting that happen. 

Linda does not want grace to abort the baby and trying to explain her that if she does it will be a horrible decision, further on she also makes her doubt whether aborting is the right decision “I do, just not now” (referring to the baby) and further on she says “ then tell me to keep it, tell me that getting rid of it is the wrong thing to do”. 

Grace thinks her mother did not love her or does not love her “did she love me?” “But she didn’t want me” exemplifying that what if she doesn’t love the baby and the same thing that happened to her might happen to her baby. Furthermore this also emphasises that she is not worthy to have the child as she’s afraid of not giving the baby what they need. 

Id say my character (grace) is scared of being a mother as she is just a teenager and might want to abort the baby due to society’s views. 

The Greek theatre history began with festivals honoring their gods. A god, Dionysus, was honored with a festival called by "City Dionysia" (where men performed songs to welcome Dionysus).

At the early Greek festivals, the actors, directors, and dramatists were all the same person. However after some time, only three actors were allowed to perform in each play, due to limited number of actors allowed on-stage and music was often played during the chorus' delivery of its lines.

Theatre buildings were called a theatron. The theaters were large, open-air structures constructed on the slopes of hills and consisted of three main elements: the orchestra, the skene, and the audience. Also most of the plays played were about tragedy and comedy. 

Audience were very influential in the success of the play. If an audience disliked a part of the play, they showed their dissatisfaction by “mocking the actors, yelling or throwing food”. To make the audience get ready for the performance, the actors would have to do something outrageous and interesting to get their attention, like telling a joke or teasing people in the audience. Sometimes play writers would try to “win over” their audience through “flattery and giving out small gifts to the audience”. To ensure that the audience spoke well of the actors, playwright and most importantly, the play, plays were performed in the round and last but not least some theatres were outside, so were open to difficult weather conditions.

The Elizabethan Theatre in London including the Globe Theatre.  The plays, the drama, the people, the actors, the events and the history.

Staging:

Theatre was built in “lavish” style and provided exciting visual effects, using rope for flying entrances, trap doors for surprising entrances and exits. However before they had no stage lighting therefore they were performed in daylight, actors only had “limited props” and costumes, “no female actors” so female roles were played by males, audiences were a lot different to modern day audiences, many of them would stand in crowds and eat and drink while the performances were on. 

Costumes:

Often bright in colour which would usually attract the audience. Since costumes were limited, they had to use them in several plays until they were too worn to be used and also because costumes were very expensive before therefore they usually had to wear contemporary clothing and “only the lead character would have authentic costume”.

Edward Alleyn, Henry Condell, William Shakespeare, Richard Burbage and John Hemmings were probably the most famous of all Elizabethan actors since they were the actors who brought the plays and their plots to life.

Description of how it looked like:

-Its open arena - the actors would also get wet if it rained. 

-amphitheatre is up to 100 feet in diameter.

-have octagonal, circular in shape having between 8 and 24 sides

Building materials: Timber, nails, stone (flint), plaster and thatched roofs.

Duration: 6 months 

20th Century Theatre is known as a great place for conferences and meetings. The 20th Century Theatre is a Grade II listed English Heritage Building and now a fully restored London venue. They were often multi-sided buildings, with a covered platform stage against one side. The audience sat or stood in covered galleries around the other sides or in the open courtyard. All the performances took place in daylight.

The achievements of realism at the end of the 19th century continued to resonate through the turn of the 21st century, but the most influential innovation in early 20th-century theatre came from a vigorous reaction against realism

Most used theatre genres:

-Comedy

-Tragedy 

-Melodrama 

-Fantasy 

-Romantic comedy 

-Farce

-Theatre for social change 

Costumes and props:

During the 20th century the costumes they wore were very vintage old fashioned clothing. There were a lot of printed clothing such as flowery dresses. 

The props they used in the 20th century were mostly fake cigars.  

Audience: 

Early in the 20th century, the target audience was the wealthy, especially during the Great Depression, as very few people had the extra money to spend on luxuries like plays. However as time went on, and after plays like death of a salesman, shows started to include the middle class and discuss the problems of an average man. 

Changes: 

The modern period had many remarkable playwrights and plays that challenged society and traditional ideals. The early 20th century had productions that emphasised the social and psychological struggles of everyday life and transitioned theatre from something just for the elite and wealthy, to something the average person could enjoy and relate with. 

Characters:

Red, Wolf, Mum, Grandma, huntsman.

Settings:

Forest, reds house, grandma’s house.

Clothing:

Red shawl, Long dress (red)

Tails, ear, makeup (wolf)

Grey hair spray, glasses, Cane (grandma) 

Gun, boots, belt, hat (huntsman)

Plain dress, apron

Sounds:

-the normal (bird singing, water gushing from the water falls, tress moving) 

-When she meets wolf (haunted forest,scary sounds of ghosts in the darkness. music on YouTube) 

-When her grandma dies 

Beginning- reds mother and red (forest song)

Wolfs plan- eats grandma and stuff

Curiosity- red arrives home and starts asking questions 

Intrigue- meeting the wolf and manipulation.

Conflict- huntsman and wolf is saving the red and grandma 

Ending- Wolfs death