The Magic Of Monkey
'Monkey' from the 70's was recently performed, as a play by Grin and Tonic. Writer/director, Bryan Nason manipulated themes and issues, such as self-discovery, family, good against evil and acceptance. The performance used and demonstrated many elements of drama as well especially roles, relationships, space, place, movement and mood. 'Monkey' empowered these elements to create dramatic meaning that accelerated issues and themes.The themes that are evident in 'Monkey' were relevant and gave meaning to the production. Self-discovery was a theme used throughout the play, and especially with the four main characters. Monkey was becoming a menace because all he ever wanted to do was fight and he didn't really care what the consequences were, as long as he was fighting. This was one of the problems that erupted an argument among the group, which broke them up. While they were separated, they all learnt that they need each other because they are not whole without each other. The roles in 'Monkey' were developed very well because they all had purpose and status. The purpose of all the characters was made clear; Monkey's
The significance of the theme journey was how the characters learnt more about themselves and changed some aspects of their personality, such as when Monkey was a demanding person and during the journey he learnt that he needs self-discipline to become more helpful group member. Another character that learns more about themself is Tripitaka. Tripitaka was a very uptight and responsible person and taking this journey made him realise to have fun sometimes and not always be so arduous. The theme good vs evil played a major role in this play mostly because the 'evil' persons were all different characters. At first, Monkey was the bad guy because he had been a menace in heaven by fighting all the time and eating the sacred peaches. But later when he and Tripitaka went on their journey, he converted to the good person or the hero, and even though his actions were very similar, he was using them for good purposes. The relationships were expressed extremely well because we could immediately identify the type of relationships between the characters, such as the relationship between Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy, it became clear that they had become f
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