Rocks in my Head review
Rocks in my Head is a play performed by three grade nine students and two adults. The Director of the play is Sue Lawson, a highly ranked Writer and Director who has received plenty of awards for Writing for young adults. The company Markwell Presents created the play. Markwell Presents is based in Bulimba Brisbane. Rocks in my head tackles important issues faced by teenagers teaching how to deal with death and relationships.
The play was directed to inflict emotion on the audience with a plot centered on the death of the main characters Mother and the newly formed attachment to his father. The rest of the play cuts from the ninth graders in the present time to the parents of Sam in the past when the mother was alive …show more content…
But the real genius of the river is that it is used to project the parent’s side of the story. My mind was blown away at this idea I never would have thought of. The lighting in the play are on point perfectly. Even the shadows of the trees have been taken account of.
Each character is played by a different persona as Sam is seen as the hero. Witch with the help of his friends helps him get through the death of his mother and solve his daddy issues. Sam’s best friend has a role of giving the main character Sam, somebody to explain his issues and help him with suggestions to help instead of him talking to the audience directly. The cousin is seen as the comic relief only placed to add in some conflict between himself and Sam and to add a few jokes to keep the audience from falling asleep.
The characters in Rocks in my Head consist of 3 teenager boys in middle school. The Actors who played these roles where middle scholar’s attending Villanova College. Two of which play the main characters of Sam and his best friend. The acting by the ninth graders was good but they had to practically yell their lines since they were further back because of the river. This was the only problem with their acting but this was not their …show more content…
It didn’t make sense why Sam would be worried about his relationship with his Dad. Soon I watched the play again and saw how his Dad didn’t seem to care about Sam as much as his mother. In the Directors cut Sue explains how the child must allow the father to love them. Sam’s Dad thought that he hadn’t been given permission to love his son like his mother because steroytipicaly men aren’t meant to have feelings. In the end I ended up still thinking it was rubbish but out of curiosity tried it with my dad, and boy was I surprised. My Dad mostly treated me like I was one of his mates not his son. Only when I said, “I love you Dad” did he really open up to
Rocks in my Head is a play performed by three grade nine students and two adults. The Director of the play is Sue Lawson, a highly ranked Writer and Director who has received plenty of awards for Writing for young adults. The company Markwell Presents created the play. Markwell Presents is based in Bulimba Brisbane. Rocks in my head tackles important issues faced by teenagers teaching how to deal with death and relationships.
The play was directed to inflict emotion on the audience with a plot centered on the death of the main characters Mother and the newly formed attachment to his father. The rest of the play cuts from the ninth graders in the present time to the parents of Sam in the past when the mother was alive …show more content…
But the real genius of the river is that it is used to project the parent’s side of the story. My mind was blown away at this idea I never would have thought of. The lighting in the play are on point perfectly. Even the shadows of the trees have been taken account of.
Each character is played by a different persona as Sam is seen as the hero. Witch with the help of his friends helps him get through the death of his mother and solve his daddy issues. Sam’s best friend has a role of giving the main character Sam, somebody to explain his issues and help him with suggestions to help instead of him talking to the audience directly. The cousin is seen as the comic relief only placed to add in some conflict between himself and Sam and to add a few jokes to keep the audience from falling asleep.
The characters in Rocks in my Head consist of 3 teenager boys in middle school. The Actors who played these roles where middle scholar’s attending Villanova College. Two of which play the main characters of Sam and his best friend. The acting by the ninth graders was good but they had to practically yell their lines since they were further back because of the river. This was the only problem with their acting but this was not their …show more content…
It didn’t make sense why Sam would be worried about his relationship with his Dad. Soon I watched the play again and saw how his Dad didn’t seem to care about Sam as much as his mother. In the Directors cut Sue explains how the child must allow the father to love them. Sam’s Dad thought that he hadn’t been given permission to love his son like his mother because steroytipicaly men aren’t meant to have feelings. In the end I ended up still thinking it was rubbish but out of curiosity tried it with my dad, and boy was I surprised. My Dad mostly treated me like I was one of his mates not his son. Only when I said, “I love you Dad” did he really open up to