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1
Q

How many sections are there?

A

7 + introduction

2
Q

What type of set is used?

A

A black box set

3
Q

What ways is the chair used/ what could it represent?

A

a) A safe place
b) Support for balances
c) A weapon
d) A shield
e) A burden
f) Prison bars
g) Shackles
h) To create levels

4
Q

Name the props used

A

a) The red nose
b) The cigarette
c) The canes
d) The baseball caps

5
Q

Describe the costumes worn by the guards and the prisoner

A
Prisoner = A plain, red T-shirt, with light blue jeans and black jazz shoes
Guards = Matching khaki buttoned up shirts, with khaki trousers and black jazz shoes. They sometimes wear khaki baseball caps
6
Q

Name the different movement styles used

A

a) Contemporary
b) Ballet
c) Tap
d) Ballroom (Tango & bolero)

7
Q

Which side of the stage do the guards always enter and exit from?

A

Stage right

8
Q

Who composed the music?

A

Philip Chambon

9
Q

Where does the light shine from and to?

A

From upstage left, along a diagonal towards downstage right

10
Q

What could the shaft of light represent?

A

a) Light from a high window - the outside world and freedom

b) Heaven calling - the prisoner’s death

11
Q

Who designed the lighting?

A

David Mohr

12
Q

Who was the choreographer?

A

Christopher Bruce

13
Q

When was it first performed?

A

1987 (by English National Ballet)

14
Q

What is the theme?

A

Human rights; prisoner of conscience

15
Q

What was the starting point/ stimulus?

A

The work of Amnesty International; saying farewell to a career as a dancer & the novel, ‘A Man’

16
Q

Describe the accompaniment

A

Electro-aucostic with digitally sampled sounds (e.g. echos), vocals, a reed pipe and dance rhythms. There are some unaccompanied sections.

17
Q

Who designed the costume and set?

A

Christopher Bruce

18
Q

What is the staging?

A

A proscenium stage

19
Q

What was the name of the dance company that first performed it in 1995?

A

Rambert Dance Company

20
Q

What is the ‘comical’ section called?

A

2) ‘Tea for two’