Jane Eyre
Interesting Moments:
- Ensemble: symbolised her conscience and emphasised her confusion
- Running on the spot - Rhythmic and built pace, showed her progression and journey or alternatively, could have shown her running away, no stability.
- Opening the window - symbolic of freedom. When the windows suddenly closed, she was back to being trapped and deprived of freedom.
- Set - moving around the set to represent different rooms, which saved time in regards to set changes.
- Costume - clearly showed that the orphans were young children, which was accompanied by the way they shuffled around the stage, (childish movements). Also made them look identical which highlighted a lack of identity and no emotional connection, (not seen as human or important).
- Lighting: Red glowing foot lights symbolised a warm fire. As the cast all placed their hands in front of the fire, the shadow of the hands was visually very interesting and worked well as an ensemble. Flames: linked back to religion and how she was threatened to go to Hell. Passing lights between hands was very clever and showed Jane to be pacing up and down the hall - made the pacing more interesting and enhanced imagery of the hallway.
- Symbolic Lighting: Square of light over her represented claustrophobia and craving for freedom.
- Man playing the dog: created humour when the tail (belt) was slapping on the sofa. Also used that sound to provoke familiarity of that sound of a dog's tail. His sudden movements, panting and barking all helped to give him the physicality of a dog and this was clear for these reasons.
- Corset: represented her transition into a woman, accompanied by pinning her hair up to give her a more mature look. Made this clear to the audience.
- Cyclic nature - began and ended with the phrase "it's a girl", shows how life will continue and personally I felt that this was an emotional moment; Jane will use her past experiences to bring her daughter up as a strong and independent woman.
- Band calling out words or phrases was surprising and gave the music an extra dimension
- Singer: singing the song 'Crazy', she seemed to be taunting Jane throughout the play in the back of Jane's mind. When she turned out to be the wife, it was a moment of realisation.
- Multi-role of the French girl/Helen was interesting and she changed her voice, accent and physicality to become more child-like and also to show that she was foreign. Showed her isolation as a result of her language barrier, but Jane helps her overcome this.
- Death was represented symbolically by the trap door, which was interesting and more effective than a melodramatic death as it was more gentle and heart-felt when Jane was left alone on stage or in Helen's bed.
Interesting Moments:
- Ensemble: symbolised her conscience and emphasised her confusion
- Running on the spot - Rhythmic and built pace, showed her progression and journey or alternatively, could have shown her running away, no stability.
- Opening the window - symbolic of freedom. When the windows suddenly closed, she was back to being trapped and deprived of freedom.
- Set - moving around the set to represent different rooms, which saved time in regards to set changes.
- Costume - clearly showed that the orphans were young children, which was accompanied by the way they shuffled around the stage, (childish movements). Also made them look identical which highlighted a lack of identity and no emotional connection, (not seen as human or important).
- Lighting: Red glowing foot lights symbolised a warm fire. As the cast all placed their hands in front of the fire, the shadow of the hands was visually very interesting and worked well as an ensemble. Flames: linked back to religion and how she was threatened to go to Hell. Passing lights between hands was very clever and showed Jane to be pacing up and down the hall - made the pacing more interesting and enhanced imagery of the hallway.
- Symbolic Lighting: Square of light over her represented claustrophobia and craving for freedom.
- Man playing the dog: created humour when the tail (belt) was slapping on the sofa. Also used that sound to provoke familiarity of that sound of a dog's tail. His sudden movements, panting and barking all helped to give him the physicality of a dog and this was clear for these reasons.
- Corset: represented her transition into a woman, accompanied by pinning her hair up to give her a more mature look. Made this clear to the audience.
- Cyclic nature - began and ended with the phrase "it's a girl", shows how life will continue and personally I felt that this was an emotional moment; Jane will use her past experiences to bring her daughter up as a strong and independent woman.
- Band calling out words or phrases was surprising and gave the music an extra dimension
- Singer: singing the song 'Crazy', she seemed to be taunting Jane throughout the play in the back of Jane's mind. When she turned out to be the wife, it was a moment of realisation.
- Multi-role of the French girl/Helen was interesting and she changed her voice, accent and physicality to become more child-like and also to show that she was foreign. Showed her isolation as a result of her language barrier, but Jane helps her overcome this.
- Death was represented symbolically by the trap door, which was interesting and more effective than a melodramatic death as it was more gentle and heart-felt when Jane was left alone on stage or in Helen's bed.
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