'Bouncers' PAP research

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  • 'Bouncers'
    • Playwright Background
      • John Godber has a company called the Hull Truck theatre company as an artistic director
      • Similar to the thought and vision of Brecht with the idea of wanting to attract people to the play whether they were theatre people or not
      • Company is one of the most successful in Britain
      • Always sells out the plays that he writes when performed
    • Context of when it was written/set
      • The play was written in 1977 and has been performed since then at places like the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and globally around the world.
      • Has been performed in Hull 17 times.
      • Was set around the same time as it was written.
      • Set in Hull surrounding a nightclub called Mr Cinders
    • Themes or Messages
      • Theme of comedy with men turning into women
      • Theme of usual young adults with drinking/partying and sexual activity
    • Genre and Style/ Audience response
      • Brechtian in style with multi roling and similar response from writer
      • No change in costume throughout in stage directions
      • Funny and enjoyable response from audience with comedic genre of performance
    • Stage directions/ Playwright instructions
      • Quite a bit of Stage directions for the actors to follow
      • Lines where the actors break out into song
      • Specific directions for where the actors are placed and what they are doing at specific points in the play

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