Dirty Work is a False Entertainment piece of theatre which is a very original piece, where one man and one women walk you through stories of historical events to every day life stories which keep you gripped to the stage from the minute it starts, all choreographed by a lady at the back of them who has an old record player on her knees playing old piano beats. The two actors do a brilliant job in telling a story, making you feel such a contrast of emotions from happy to sad and the lady at the back did a really simple but effective job in keeping your attention on her because as a audience member you didn't realise what she was going to do. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole play and is one of the best pieces of theatre I have seen, it was so smartly performed and wrote. False Entertainment make a crowd feel uncomfortable and make you very aware of what's going on by keeping your attention from start to finish as you don't ever know what's going to happen next.
Performance.
Richard Schechner believed that as humans we perform every day, but there is a theory behind each one, for example when competing in a sport or engaging in intercourse, we all have a certain standard or goal, of which we wish to reach. In the arts he believed that the form of performance was quite latterly putting on a show and performing to an audience. He also believed that we perform in our everyday lives by showing off and going to extreme lengths in order to underline an action to the people watching us. I have found this concept of performance being everywhere and in everything we do, very interesting and I agree with this statement, as I see performance in my self and the people around me. I feel that I perform as soon as I get out of bed, looking in the mirror is a performance.
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