Melodrama
We looked at melodrama and what it is. We also looked at the main 6 stock characters in melodrama: Hero, damsel, lover, villain, wise guy, the fool. I found this helped with learning and feeling the huge difference between melodrama and our naturalism play A Doll’s House. The movement is the key it has to be big and hyperbolic. Melodrama is very 2D it has no inner feelings to it everything is external and fake. The poses and noises we made for our sock characters made me realise how over the top melodrama was and I still find it hard imagining people use to hate naturalism and would only want to see melodramas. The audience wanted to watch people act rather than believe what they see. Melodramatic pieces have very simple plots; very child-like.
I found this quite hard to imagine, people nower days go to the theatre to see real life, a different life, not to see someone overly exaggerating everything they say and do, you would go to the panto for this.
We looked at melodrama and what it is. We also looked at the main 6 stock characters in melodrama: Hero, damsel, lover, villain, wise guy, the fool. I found this helped with learning and feeling the huge difference between melodrama and our naturalism play A Doll’s House. The movement is the key it has to be big and hyperbolic. Melodrama is very 2D it has no inner feelings to it everything is external and fake. The poses and noises we made for our sock characters made me realise how over the top melodrama was and I still find it hard imagining people use to hate naturalism and would only want to see melodramas. The audience wanted to watch people act rather than believe what they see. Melodramatic pieces have very simple plots; very child-like.
I found this quite hard to imagine, people nower days go to the theatre to see real life, a different life, not to see someone overly exaggerating everything they say and do, you would go to the panto for this.
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