‘Hoods’ a Drama Production

The performance Hoods by Barking Gecko Theatre Co. is a swindle ab set forth two young children, Jessie and Kyle, who bring in video game style situations to pass the time as they atomic number 18 left in the cable car by their bewilder. This play was performed at Thornlie elderly High Schools Performing Arts Centre on Friday the 1st of April 2011. It was a great honour to have this brilliant play shown to the high school students as it showed perseverance of the young children. The play was scripted by Angela Betzien and directed by Leticia Caceres. The actors were Sam Longley and Andrea Gibbs, Sam who vie Kyle and Andrea who compete Jessie.The style in which the play was performed was presentational although there are some parts of realism beca wasting disease situations like these actually do happen. The actors played multiple characters and morphed into each oneness. The morphing shows visible changes of character. They had great versatility of characters and played ea ch one with passion for the role. The facial expressions they used seemed to add to the way they acted and made us, as an consultation believe their roles much more. Other presentational aspects include the use of direct address and poetic narration throughout the performance.Jessie and Kyles mother leaves them and their baby brother (Troy) in the car as she went to the shops. Troy survive sick and the children are fearful of their situation and go off to sample their grandmother. Their mother hadnt actually forgotten about them but preferably had been caught shoplifting for them and was taken away. The themes for Hoods would be child neglect, poverty and domestic violence. The playwright had the intention of telling these childrens story to the audience. As children they male parentt have the ability to tell people their situation and get patron like adults can.The intentions would be that they wrote the play with the intention of showing powerlessness, and making the charac ters receive vulnerable as they are so young and in situations we dont expect children to be in, they delivered these very effectively. There are terce main parts of the play where they are powerless, when the children are in the car trying to find their mum, when the counsellor has no power to take the children out and treat them and when the mother is powerless against the fathers violent ways. Their costumes were ageing and shaggy due to their rigidting being dirty and poverty stricken.They both wore hoods which they either wore on or off their heads, depending on what character they were playing. The set contained very few objects, a box that acted as a car, the consider and some chairs. This added to the deserted feel of the play. The redness was dark with the main lighting in the middle, where most of the action took place. There were also few props, the baby, Jessies magic wand and even though it was clothing, Jessies jacket as it was something she never took off, like her comfort blanket. There were different sounds throughout the performance, such as, cars, sirens, explosions and dogs barking.The stage at the high school was kind of spacious self-aggrandising the actors a chance to use it all, which they did perfectly. I really liked the performance, it was enkindle and compelling. There was action, comedy and tragedy which all added to the performances appeal. It did start to get slightly boring toward the end but it think that was because it was quite long, but overall very good. I think most of the audience liked it due to the attention they payed and the amount of applause at the end. I would definitely recommend Hoods to anyone looking for a great play to watch.