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Rufus Norris introduces and discusses 'Small Island' Act 2 scenes 1-6
- Key Stage 3
- Year 9
- English
Act 2 is completely different from Act 1, and we're helped because, for most of it, we're in one environment, which is the house. So, we can, by constructing, by constructing a house at the centre of it, that gives us the opportunity to occasionally go outside the house, when we're going to the post office, seeing at the railway station, or when we're going outside the education department, with odd little flashbacks, it means we've really got one set. In the first Act, we've got loads of different environments that we're going to in Act 2, because we've got a revolve, we can literally go, see it from this perspective, that perspective, we're in the lounge, we're in the bedroom, we're upstairs, we're downstairs, and there is no direct address. So, in a way, it's a very, very different half. There are flights of fancy within it, where we get Auntie coming back, or Michael coming across later on, but in a way, and we're still using the video language, in a much more subtle way, generally, on the back wall, so it's still there, but it's like a remnant of the hope and the vibrancy of these young people's lives, as we're in a much more real, difficult, challenging, broken furniture, egg and chips world.
Rufus Norris introduces and discusses 'Small Island' Act 2 scenes 1-6
- Key Stage 3
- Year 9
- English
Act 2 is completely different from Act 1, and we're helped because, for most of it, we're in one environment, which is the house. So, we can, by constructing, by constructing a house at the centre of it, that gives us the opportunity to occasionally go outside the house, when we're going to the post office, seeing at the railway station, or when we're going outside the education department, with odd little flashbacks, it means we've really got one set. In the first Act, we've got loads of different environments that we're going to in Act 2, because we've got a revolve, we can literally go, see it from this perspective, that perspective, we're in the lounge, we're in the bedroom, we're upstairs, we're downstairs, and there is no direct address. So, in a way, it's a very, very different half. There are flights of fancy within it, where we get Auntie coming back, or Michael coming across later on, but in a way, and we're still using the video language, in a much more subtle way, generally, on the back wall, so it's still there, but it's like a remnant of the hope and the vibrancy of these young people's lives, as we're in a much more real, difficult, challenging, broken furniture, egg and chips world.