Director's Folio - Ruby Moon (1 Viewer)

[blond_e]

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!!

 

[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?????:mad1:

 

[stine03]

studybuddy; you can order it online. http://www.currency.com.au/product_detail.aspx?productid=399&ReturnUrl=/search.aspx?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!!!!

 

[kazziiee]

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!!!!

i think its suppose to just be taken as you own interpretation.
im in a drama class of three & we all came up with a different idea.
1. did ruby ever even exist.
2. the ice cream man did it.
3. ruby died as a baby and they are still hang on in believe that she has grown up.
its kinda weird but i like it as you can interpret it how you want.

 

[jabecksta]

I am desperately trying to get my hands on a copy of Top Notes Drama- Ruby Moon- Matt Cameron. Author is Filip Radwanowski.

ANY IDEAS??? Im in WA