'Bouncers' PAP research
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- Created on: 05-01-21 14:20
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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
- Playwright Background
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