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Dramatic Commentary: The Birthday Party Stage Plans & Technician Guidance

Explore the ground plans and technical effects for a naturalistic and minimalist set of 'The Birthday Party'. Understand character motives, stage positions, voice and movement terms, utilizing lighting and sound FXs. Justifications provided for actor decisions.

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Dramatic Commentary: The Birthday Party Stage Plans & Technician Guidance

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  1. Dramatic Commentary AND Ground Plans

  2. Ground Plan • Audience with arrow • Entrance and exit • Stage • Key • Opening positions of characters • Viability (roughly to scale and no obstructions to sight lines

  3. Naturalistic set of ‘The Birthday Party’ –Boxed set P audience Key P – Petey table - flat - window - entrance/exit - chair

  4. Minimalist set ‘The Birthday Party’ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ P ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Audience KEY - fireplace ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - curtain P – Petey - table - chair - entrance/exit

  5. 1st Column Notes for Actors Do You Have: • Stage Position (USL, CS…..) • Voice terms(pitch, pace, tone, volume, intonation, clarity, register, accent, articulation, fluency) • Movementterms(gestures, facial expression, body language, use of levels, use of space, posture) • Feelings/Emotions towards others

  6. 2nd ColumnJustification • Why are they in that stage position? • Why is their voice like that? • Why are they moving like that? • Why do they feel these emotions/feelings? Show an understanding of the whole play – of that character’s motivation – the reason behind their actions. Keep asking WHY???

  7. 3rd ColumnTechnical Effects - LIGHTS AN EXAMPLE: 4 fresnel lanterns hanging at a 45 angle to give a wash of light at level 5. The key light is the sunlight coming in the window and a lamp. One profile lantern with a gobo of a window projected on the back wall. An amber gel on the lantern to represent sunlight. At level 4 increasing to level 7 to show morning progressing and sun coming up.

  8. Sound FxsAN EXAMPLE • Sounds of seagulls to show that it is a seaside town. • Piece of classical music building up to a crescendo to increase tension and create a sombre, tense mood and atmosphere.

  9. Notes for actors Justification Technical FXs

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