Director's Folio - Ruby Moon

[blond_e]

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Hi I'm doing my Director's Folio on Matt Cameron's Ruby Moon. I was wondering if anyone has any general notes on this play or any ideas?

thanks.

[sherryshoo]

these are just notes from my teacher in class but i hope they help some how!
goodluck

“Ruby Moon”- NOTES

Thematic concerns:
Ø Who can you trust today?
Ø How well do we know our neighbours? “Who would you trust with your child?” – sonny Jim to Sylvia
Ø Creates a metaphor for the prevailing fear of contemporary society
Ø “Little lost child” e.g. Azaria Chamberlin �* Australia’s unforgiving landscape, anything can happen.
Ø The obsessive nature of guilt
Ø Cameron writes about the urban landscape �* he sees suburbia as a jungle “forest of suburbia”.
Ø urban isolation
Ø A climate of fear is created.
Ø Anxiety and mistrust


Dramatic Form/structure:
Ø episodic
Ø character driven
Ø mysterious/ambiguous
Ø cyclical
Ø presentational form
Ø open to reinterpretation
Ø stylistic

Use of production elements:
Ø Sound effects
Ø Lighting

Set:
Ø Piles of old furniture �* like an attic
Ø Not definitive �* confusion, ambiguity


Dialogue:
Ø Repetition of “fairytale”, beginning and end �* cyclical

Characterisation:
Ø 2 actors playing all roles �* creates confusion
Ø Larger then life, almost grotesque characters



Metaphors within the play:
Ø Mannequin �*a surrogate for Ruby, parents can’t let go
Ø Doll�*Physicalisation of their fears �* destruction of child hood
Ø Cul-de-sac �*dead end, cyclical




What is real?
Ø Nightmare logic �* nothing is certain, what is real in this world?
Ø Was there ever a Ruby Moon? �* We begin to wonder if she was ever real.
Ø It is never specified how long she has been missing for
Ø Ambiguity of situation �* no background to characters.
Ø Most questions never answered, no definitive ending �* repetitive cycle
By the conclusion we see that this whole event will carry on again the next night, and has done before.
Ø Bizarre and macabre
Ø Gothic, nightmarish ambiguity
Ø Characters are frightening and weird �* Grimm’s fairytales

[blond_e]

thanks heaps for that info its helped me loads =) ty ty ty!!

[fOxYcLeOpTrA89]

wait hold up... ruby moon is wat now?
i heard a girl at skool 2day say "i cant wait to see ruby moon 2moz"
and i was like... "WATTTT... RUBYS GOING 2 MOON? LOL, WENN... I GOTTA SEE THIS"
every1 laughed...
i guess thats wat i get 4 being absent for a week lol

[studybuddy1607]

I went to Ruby Moon on Friday 9th at the sydney theatre company from 10:30-12pm and i loved it. i wish it was a bit extended in some areas though. can anyone help me??? i want to find a copy of the text but i cant seem to find it?????

[stine03]

studybuddy; you can order it online. http://www.currency.com.au/product_d...px?q=ruby+moon

[justinC116]

Hey guys we have just started Ruby Moon and i finished it just now, i dont no if i have read it right but the who the hell did it!!!!?????? It mentioned some tune bout Greensleaves, and then they accused each other and im really confused!!!!