Super Objective
A super objective of a play is the main theme or message that the story is working towards conveying. In Playhouse Creatures the most predominant is feminism. Of course the play is hugely feminist, it's an almost entirely female cast about the first actresses in Great Britain. It's really interesting to see how April De Angelis does this, for example the fact that all of the women are incredibly strong characters, another is that there aren't actually any men in the play who aren't being stood up to. Rochester is played by Mrs Barry, Otway is teased and manipulated by all the actresses. It's very clever and wonderfully fun to play around with. As a strong feminist I have been constantly been keeping the idea of feminism in mind with all my acting.
However I think that De Angelis is doing more than saying how sexist society was back then, I think that if you look at the amount of anachronisms in the play, for example Rochester's acting lesson with Mrs Barry is about 300 years before it's own time, and Doll being an eternal, timeless character who never seems to age, then you can see that the play write is actually holding a mirror up to the audience. She is raising the question about whether the characters in the play are really so different from women today. It's very clever, and it works. I think that whilst our society is far more advanced in the areas of sexism there is still a long way to go and that we can learn a lot from these messages in the play. I have kept this in mind whilst developing Mrs Farley's character and performing as her.
However I think that De Angelis is doing more than saying how sexist society was back then, I think that if you look at the amount of anachronisms in the play, for example Rochester's acting lesson with Mrs Barry is about 300 years before it's own time, and Doll being an eternal, timeless character who never seems to age, then you can see that the play write is actually holding a mirror up to the audience. She is raising the question about whether the characters in the play are really so different from women today. It's very clever, and it works. I think that whilst our society is far more advanced in the areas of sexism there is still a long way to go and that we can learn a lot from these messages in the play. I have kept this in mind whilst developing Mrs Farley's character and performing as her.
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