Drama Coursework: Task 6 an Evaluation of a Live Performance

I am writing about the performance 'Saturday Night Fever', I went to see this on Wednesday 9th November at Milton Keynes Theatre, This Performance Was Adapted by Nan Knighton, and the director was John Stacey.

This Play is about A young man by the name of Tony Manero who works in a DIY store that doesn't pay much money, He is passionate about dancing and loves to dance in competition's, A young lady called Annette falls in love with Tony but unfortunately he does not love her as he meets another young lady called Stephanie who he falls in love with they begin to dance together so they decided to enter a dancing compotion and they win however Tony does not feel he deserved to win, he felt that another couple in the competition deserved it as he felt they did better than them..

Tony's gang (Bobby C, Joey, Double Jay, Gus) Bobby C was always trying to get Tony's attention but he kept on failing to Tony would just fail to acknowledge his existence and on night at the bridge which was where the gang used to hang around Bobby C was yet again trying to get Tony's attention by showing off on the bridge and as it was a very stormy night he slipped and fell ad he did not survive.

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair

[Portrait of George Brunis and Tony Parenti, Jimmy...

A man and a woman performing a modern dance.

Throughout the performance there were many mediums used, they were also very clear and easy to pick up on but the most common medium was the use of movement mime and gesture.

Dance was used right through it kept the performance energetic and lively there was many different styles of dance used disco dancing, ballroom dancing, ballet dancing and Latin dancing. The most common use of dance was disco dancing a lot of the dancing was...