drama

AUS THEATRE THESIS

challenges preconceived notions about the cultural and immigrant experience in Australian multi-cultural society.

POINT 1 AUS THEATRE

Neighbourhood watch, employs transformational acting to evoke sympathy from the audience, challenging audiences innate response to reject the immigrant experience within Australian xenophobic culture

POINT 2 AUS THEATRE

SAF visceral depiction of Pearls immigrant experience heightens tension forcing a reexamination of the discrimination embedded in Australian life.

POINT 3 AUS THEATRE

SAF explores the struggles of bicultural identity as Zoe navigates the dating scene where she faces racist stereotypes due to her heritage, audiences reflects on inherent societal tendencies that prohibit co-existence of individuals Australian and Chinese culture.

BLACK COMEDY THESIS

seeks to expose the audience to confronting/taboo topics using comedy to create a cathartic form of theatre

POINT 1 BLACK COMEDY

through physical comedy in LOI the audience is comedically relieved by laughing allowing a break from the heftiness of the violence that occured within the Troubles.

POINT 2 BLACK COMEDY

use of narration in BITNW, in in its omnipresence humorously comments and engages with the scene

POINT 3 BLACK COMEDY

the intense racial tensions in scene 6 between Ray and Dennison BITNW, is relieved by the characterisation and relationships, interspersing comedic relief that enables thw audience to be palatably addressed by racial issues.