Jay-Rod

Holiday Week 2

Posted on July 9th, 2007 by jayrod.
Categories: Uncategorized.

Ok so this will be short just to show i have done some work i have mainly been focusing on Dolls house and Plague Year.

Plague Year for those who care was originaly published as a book rather than a play. It was written By Daniel Defoe, and this is were the charecter defoe comes from. facts about the book, it was not published through the real memories of Daniel Defoe as he would have been i think it was 5 when the plague re-amerged in london in its full force. Instea the book was written years later under an alias, the initial of the alias are the same as defoes uncule who it was believed that defoe read and based his accounts on his uncles journals.

Also huge thing that i love is that A journal of the Plague Years written by wright has no plot, it has no story line, but rather a connect theam of death and the plague itself. amazingly the charecter do not develop, grow or change from the past event of the plague. each scean is to be detached from itself and from time, as it shifts from year to year with technoloyg, vocab and is truly amazing to thinkn of the paradox it could create.

It is these thing that are shaping my thought, Like erika i to was thinking of changing historical context from the plauge destroyed london to maybe post 9/11 New York, or London bombing there fore it would still be london and the woman i talk aout could be one of the victims of the terrorist attacks, but more and more i think about it it seems that if i shift to america i loose an important area of it the fact its set in london. that leads me to think about the tube bombing, and the importance of london.
And that paradox of time leads me to my other idea. it actually came to me when i was thinking of the monologues we went to see, I got thinking of the Quintin Tarantino/ Kill Bill adapted version of the maids play. it lost no power from chaning historical context or period, but rather it used theams and styles of other modern plays and in itself was creating a new play and that was were some how my thoughts lead to my new idea. Im thinking of doing it in a Russell T. Davies/ David Tennant style, but that all im saying in this blog, soem of you may know who or what that mean but others wont and must wait.

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