Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Drama Elements of Brighton Beach Memoirs
The stage directions made it clearer as to what the characters were doing. When you are reading a play you kind of imagine what they characters are doing and how they are doing, but with the stage directions it adds more to the dialogue and gives more insight to the characters and their personalities. There are many parts in this play where I agreed with the stage directions. On page 70 the focus changes from the family talking downstairs to Eugene upstairs listening in on the conversation that was taking place downstairs. This happens quite a few times during the play and each time the stage directions makes it clear. I don't think that there could be any other way to write the stage directions. I think the playwright wrote the stage directions in a way that made sense with the scenes and the parts between all the characters. How do you think the stage directions could have been different? Or should the stage directions stay the way they are?
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As Eugene was the story teller in the play I feel the stage directions were set well but some parts weren't as others. Some of the sets or scenes when the family was downstairs and Eugene was upstairs doesn't really make sense because Eugene wasn't in the scene to be writing what happened. Most of the play was set good as it transitioned between each character.
ReplyDeleteI loved how the stage directions were written. I feel as though all of them were necessary. When there was an argument going on with certain family members, the author would also pay attention to what someone that wasn't part of the argument was doing up in their bedroom to show that they were stressed out as well but because of a different situation. I think this was a big way to get the stressful theme across to readers.
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