Face: The Play - The Prologue

Face: The Play - The Prologue

1. Characters Involved

   • Narrative Martin
   • Present Martin
   • Past Martin
   • Mum
   • Dad
   • Natalie
   • Mark
   • Street Voices
     • 2
     • 3
     • 4
     • 5
     • 6
     • 1

2. Sets the scene to the whole play

   • Narrative Martin briefly describes what happens
     • "How i went from the gang of three - to the gang of me"
       • Became independent

3. The use of street voices

   • Makes the scene abstract
     • Creates effect
   • Engages the audience
     • Causes effect

4. Props

   • Hospital Bed
     • "Present Martin takes a place on a hospital bed"

5. Atmosphere

   • Dim Lighting
     • Creates an atmosphere and a mood for the audience
     • Effect
       • Abstract
   • Smoke Machine
     • Effect
     • Symbolises the climatic accident yet to come
       • An eerily atmosphere
         • Audience feels sympathy for Martin as he was a victim

6. Stage

   • In The Round
     • "The three Martins walk on stage, face each other, look closely. They circle as they put up a hand to touch the skin on their faces, suddenly recoil."
       • 3 Martins walk to the centre of the stage
         • Audience can see clearly that an accident has/ about to happen
       • Make Up
         • A sophisticated art which clearly shows the audience the affect the crash had on Martin
           • Something yet to come
           • A constant reminder of the crash
     • Abstract
     • Street Voices stand in gaps between the audience to make them feel engaged in the performance.
       • Makes them feel involved

7. "turning to face the rest of the cast"

   • Shows that people care about Martin
   • Make them aware of what happended to Martin
     • To teach the audience a lesson
       • A statement that needs to be heard. So no one suffers what he has suffered.

8. Street Voices

   • Abstract
   • Creates effect
     • Witnesses of the accident

9. The Sound Montage

   • Creates an effect
     • Sounds which could be played throughout the performance to enhance the audiences engagement
     • Abstract
   • "A sound montage build: school voices, feet in corridors, school bell, car tyres screech, crash, broken glass, sirens, heart monitor. Then sudden silence."
     • The sounds go in chronological order to the events they are associated with
     • The fact the montage "builds" up creates effect because the audience understands something tradgic will happen
       • Entice the audience to watch what happens next