Ruby Moon Play Analysis

     Ruth’s dream is to improve her family’s lifestyle and move into a house where she can raise Travis and the new baby. To realize her dreams she should not put everyone else’s wants and needs in front of hers all of the time. She should express her feelings more often so that her family will listen and help her to reach her goals. The play supports this view by showing how Ruth often neglects her feelings and pays great attention to her family’s feelings, wants, and needs.

REAL TV’s 2004 production of ‘Children of The Black Skirt is “A gothic fairy-tale for young people. Three lost children discover an abandoned orphanage in the bush and learn a history of Australia through the spirits of children who have lived there, from convict times, through to World War Two, the Stolen Generations and beyond.”1 The play was produced by REAL TV, written by Angela Betzien and directed by Leticia Càceres and the performance starred Jodie Le Vesconte (Black Skirt / Harold Horricks), Louise Brehmer (New one) and Melodie Reynolds (Old one / Rosie). They all used the elements of Australian Gothic Theatre, famous nursery rhymes and many of the elements of drama to communicate the terrors and tragic events many children growing

Beware of The Pack St. Lucy’s Home For Girls by Karen Russell has a lot of hidden agendas imbedded into the story. The story creates an unsettling atmosphere with its childlike fairytale approach in how the girls transgress into human beings. They are confused, angry, and distraught and as the story progresses even competitive towards the idea of changing. Conformity is a major argument throughout the story; Russell shows this through the use of characterization, conflict, and symbolism. Mirabella is the youngest of the pack and the only one with a name that differed from the rest, which Ironically matched her personality.

Ruby Moon, a mysterious and eerie play written by Matt Cameron explores presentational theatre aspects and elements of absurdism. Cameron has used dramatic forms, performance styles, techniques

In the production of Ruby Moon, the stage setting creates dramatic meaning and purpose. Ruby Moon is set in an Australian suburban town in picture perfect Flaming Tree Grove where Ray and Sylvie 's daughter, Ruby, disappears on her way to visit her grandma at the end of the cul-de-sac (HCS, 2014). The intimacy and secrecy of the Flaming Tree Grove community and its lack of safety adds to the supernatural and paranormal intrusions of Australian Gothic Theatre. The Ruby Moon production was fuelled and inspired by fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, and Alice in Wonderland, and also newspaper headings and stories about families and their missing children scattered around the world. Matt Cameron 's purpose of the production

The play that was chosen to be adapted to film was, “Gloria.” “Gloria”, is written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The play was first performed in the theater on May 28, 2015 and has only remained on the stage.

Cora Lee had many children. As a child she was obsessed with baby dolls. Every Christmas she would get a new baby doll. Until she was 13, when her father said she was too old. Beginning in her sophomore year of high school, she started having babies one after another. Cora Lee neglects her children as they get older since she can only take care of them while they’re babies. Kiswana catches one of Cora Lee’s children eating out of a trash can and takes him to his mom to tell on him. Kiswana then see how filthy Cora Lee’s apartment is. Kiswana offers her to come and bring the children to a play. So Cora Lee cleans her children up and they all go to the play with Kiswana. Cora Lee is touched by seeing how much her children enjoyed the play and from that day to vowed to be a better mother.

However, throughout the course of the play several Youngers’ dreams come into direct conflict with one another or even the family dynamic itself. Especially when it involves the life insurance policy check that is coming which could change all their lives. Which also becomes a main focal point for all the strife in the family.

From the year eighteen sixty nine to the year nineteen sixty nine Aboriginal children were taken from their homes. The play ‘Stolen’ by Jane Harrison tells the story of five Aboriginal children who were forcibly extracted form their families. The children: Anne, Jimmy, Ruby, Sandy and Shirley all demonstrated the devastating impact that the removal from their families and subsequent institutionalisation had on each of their lives. Furthermore, some of the main characters maintained their hopes and dreams under different circumstances whilst a few displayed a lack of hope.

When Edna returns home later that day, she finds out that Robert is leaving for Mexico. She is rather upset with this news and afterwards leaves to go home. "She went directly to her room. The little cottage was close and stuffy after leaving the outer air. But she did not mind; there appeared to be a hundred different things demanding her attention indoors." (42) She tries to ignore that his leaving and not telling her affects her so much. Yet she declines an invitation from Madame Lebrun to go and sit with them until Robert leaves. When Edna sees him leave it tears her up inside that her companion, the one person that she felt understood her, is leaving: "Edna bit her handkerchief convulsively, striving to hold back and to hide, even from herself as she would have hidden from another, the emotion which was troubling - tearing- her. Her eyes were brimming with tears." (44) Edna's life is not complete when Robert leaves:

The beginning of the production is, for the most part, light-hearted with comic relief coming from the princes, Red Riding Hood, and Jack and his mother. The musical number “Prologue” sets up the storyline and shows the audience what familiar characters they will be seeing, it is a catchy number that gets the audience engaged from the very beginning. Sondheim, the lyricist of the musical, gives just the right amount of discourse in his music to keep progressing the storyline but keep it engaging to audiences. The over encompassing theme of the first act is to pursue what you want and your happy ending will come to you. However; this theme changes within the shorter second act. After the characters obtain their “Happily Ever After” they realize that it is not all they wished for. I feel as though this fundamental shift Sondheim and Lapine portray is very deliberate; they want to make the audience feel for these characters and their loss and pain. The music of this musical plays a key role in this, more so than the script in my opinion. The compelling melodies and heart-wrenching lyrics, like in “No One is Alone”, highlights the character’s pain and keeps the audience emotionally investing in the production. While the second act portrays a more depressing storyline, the end-like any good fairytale-shows that you can

The play is not naturalistic and it defies any semblance of reality. We cannot believe in the characters –because they don't exist. They are simply dramatic constructs Priestley employs to manipulate the audience.All the characters are simplistically drawn caricatures with melodramatic qualities.

The fairies and the fairy realm have many responsibilities in this play. The most important of which is that they are the cause of much of the conflict and comedy within this story. They represent mischievousness and pleasantry which gives the play most of its emotion and feeling. They relate to humans because they make mistakes but differ in the fact that they do not understand the human world.

Theme – the reason behind why the playwright wrote the play. “Patterns of life”, a slice of reality.

Fairy tales are something that everyone has read or seen, they all seem to have important lessons at the end of each one to teach young children some of the lessons they need for life. These fairy tales when we were younger all seemed innocent and something we all hoped that would happen to us. Little did we know as we got older that the fairy tales we all knew and loved when we were younger, weren't as innocent as they seemed.