Fantasy in Theatre :: Fantasy Shakespeare Theatre Drama Essays

Fantasy in TheatreIn preperation for our performance on the above subject, we firstlylistened to several pieces of fantasy music as a guided visualisationin which we were asked to imagine going through different doors and to project what was behind them. This then inspired us to experimentwith diferent stylistic devices to include in our performance.We were given deuce pieces of text that was goin to be the scope for ourpiece of Drama, they wereA Midsummer Nights Dream - A play by William Shakespeare. Era wise,there were no problems with using this, as Shakespeare is timeless and lot be set in any period of history, including modern day. Thisparticular play is set in the dream like world of fairies. The Lord ofthe fairies, Oberon, has an argument with his lover, Titiania, over a new-made boy she has adopted after the death of her waiting woman. Oberonwants her to hand over the child to him, Titania refuses. Oberondecides to send Puck to fetch a magic flower, the succus of which,dropp ed into Titanias eyes will make her fall in love with the firstthing she sees in order to trick her. He hopes that this will distracther so he can take the boy.The Jabberwocky - This is a poem written by Lewis Carroll (fromThrough the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872) It tellsof the defeat of a mythical monster. By reading the text, we can seethat it doesnt really make much sense, but we can make some sense ofthe words by their sounds.In our group, we started discussing our ideas then looked at the twotexts and fitted our ideas around them.In our performance, we decided to have good and wretched involved, we had2 dream get the hang and 4 other people. 2 of which were taken by the evildream master who gave them nightmares, the other 2 were taken by thegood dream master who fulfilled their fantasies. The 4 characters hadthere own dream, one cute everything they asked for, another preciousto be an Indian, another wanted to remain popular and successful atschool, and la stly the focal point was on the character who wanted tosee her Mother again because she passed away. We used the idea out ofA Midsummer Nights Dream where Titania was put asleep, in ourplay,we also took the idea of having 2 dream masters from thecharacters Oberon and Puck. The dream master puts the 4 characters tosleep using his powers.The first 3 characters have there dream or fantasy then the girl who