Fascist,staging conventions and about the play

What Is Fascist?/SOURCE 2

Fascist

noun

1.

a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.

2.

( often initial capital letter ) a member of a fascist movement orparty.

3.

a person who is dictatorial or has extreme right-wing views.

(This is the definition of Fascist straight from the Dictionary)

The playwright’s intentions and how they impact on the play

The play is called Blackout, Inspired by the stories of a young offender from Glasgow. The way the play was written makes it interesting because it is short quick sentence that makes you want to read more and more, also the way the play builds up tension. This play is a very Physical play, This is good because it drags the audience in to want to know more moreover, the character goes to past memories, which makes the character interesting. Every word is important because it is quick and short, also we are taken on James story, which make it intriguing.

My first impression of the play is that some thing bad has happen and it is a very emotional and deep play, It was written in a monologue kind of way. The main theme of the play is sadness and darkness because he is going to jail for something moreover, the character is still at school therefore, this makes it more scary because he is only like 14. The way the play is written it builds up tension because when he says "Imagine" you accul imagine.

Theatrical Configuration and Ideas for staging 

• In a circle - the audiences is around the actors as they act 
• we can do the play moving around the school 
• we can do the play, when we are in the audience and there is no stage 
• we can do the play 3 sides audience - us on stage and the audience are on the left right and middle watching us perform 
• we can do the play End Done Theatre - when there is only one side and the audience sit in front and watches the play 
• Immersive - is when the actors are in the audience 
• (chorus is another way of saying a group of people)

What would I do for are play and Warm up

I will put the audience in the middle and I will put a spot light on the actors and darkness around them. I will only put a spot light on the actors only when they are saying there lines because it will add more emotion and tension. I will also put blocks that the actors stand on and the more tension and emotion the higher the block goes.
are warm up was that we could only say 8 words or so and we had to make play out of it, my group started off us watching  TV and then the youngest son started saying "screaming and shouting" in his sleep and he was shaking and the family was scared and confused, he looked like he was possessed.

  The play's Themes and Issuess

• Sadness - affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful: to feel sad because a close friend has moved away. =Dictionary 
• Darkness -the state or quality of being dark: The room was in total darkness. = Dictionary 
• Stream of consciousness - 1. A literary technique that presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur.2. Psychology The conscious experience of an individual regarded as a continuous, flowing series of images and ideas running through the mind.
•  The main character granddad died
• The main character, James falls into drugs and alcohol 
• Bullying - a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.