Dramatic Interpretation of Death and the Maidan and They Dance Alone :: Drama

Dramatic interpretation Death and the Maidan and They Dance Al iRESPONDINGThe strategies that we have used in Death and Maiden, 1984 and TheyDance Alone are cross-cutting, non-verbal factor role play and freezeframe. We used cross-cutting in Death and Maiden, non-verbal means inThey Dance Alone, role play in 1984 and freeze frames in just roughly of theperformances.Cross-cutting is a technique used especially in filmmaking in whichshots of two or more separate, usually concurrent scenes areinterwoven it can as well be called inter-cutting.We used this technique in the Death and Maiden piece of Drama where wehad five different scenes two past, two futures and one present, andwe started the piece in the future then past, then present, then pastand finishing on future. This technique was used many times in thisperformance and resulted into existence really effective. It was effectivebecause in our performance we cut in and out of different scenesshowing Paullinas life in the past and in the future, but dependingon what was going to happen in the present depended on which futurewas going to happen. The two different future scenes were twocompletely different outcomes one being her talking to a councillorabout her week and her past with the doctors. She is still paranoidthat people look at her because they do not like her and she panicsabout the slightest noise or incident which might be taking place, andthe other was her getting married to her partner. The future ofPaullina would only happen depending on her past, which was herattending an antonym leaders meeting which resulted in her beingfound out and the other scene which was Paullina starting in a mentalhospital being supervised by medical staff.FUTURE PAST PRESENT PAST FUTURENonverbal communication includes facial expressions, tones of voice,gestures, eye contact, spatial arrangements, and patterns of touch andexpressive movement. Research suggests that nonverbal communication ismore important in understanding human behaviour than words alone - thenonverbal channels seem to be more powerful than what people say.Non-verbal means is being other than verbal not involving wordsnonverbal communication this could include involving little use of wording a nonverbal intelligence test.But for our non-verbal means performance we did not use any verbalcommunication in any of the scenes. Our performance was one scenebecause making the performance non-verbal decreases the chance ofengaging the audience into the scene. We used simple repetitivemovements and sounds to engage the audience which was very effective.