There is a reassurance of Stanislavsky in theatre, as he practically revolutionised theatre. we had a couple of naturalistic scenes, for instance in scene 1 act 1 I played Lucy as a naturalistic young girl who acts younger than her age, her super objective in this scene was to show purity and youth, she skips around the stage as a young perhaps, 7 year old girl, this first scene is incredibly important as it displays the most of every scene the purity of youth and how naive young people are, a lack of worry for instance when Lucy picks up a flower and sings "Who shall I marry, Tom, Dick or Harry", she can afford to worry about such petty things as she has no other worries at this time. This signifies this.
In my next scene with Lucy we sat on the stage, Lucy I felt was still treated as a young girl even by Arthur her fiancée, when she says "Arthur", and he puts his finger to his lips for her to stop speaking, showing control on his half. Still keeping with the concept of Naturalism, this scene shows Lucy's super objective to show how someone can have so much control of another, Lucy is controlled not only by Arthur but Mina also, When Lucy finally gets a chance to speak and explain how worried she was when she could not see Arthur in "The heaving grey ocean", she gets shot down (Verbally) by Mina who accuses her of attention seeking, this angers Lucy as she storms off, she probably feels angry as she is never able to act adult, she was having the opportunity to sit down with the other adults and maybe for the first time ever felt accepted and able to act her age, this shows the power Mina has that she can effect Lucy in such a way so easily. Another view on this is that Lucy IS attention seeking, if this is the case, I believe that Lucy would only be doing so out of frustration that she is never listened to and just shrugged off like a child would be by her sister, which would explain (if she is) why she would attention seek so much.
The vampire brides is a brilliant contrast in comparison to that of the first scene act 1, as it shows the youth and purity of Lucy and all of a sudden she is a vampire bride she has lost her sacred virginity, another view on this could be that Victorians believed that to lose your virginity before marriage made you evil.
This scene moves away from Stanislavsky as it is in no way naturalistic, however the balance of Autaud's theatre of cruelty as this scene does make people feel very uncomfortable and Stanislavsky's naturalism in the past scene makes for a brilliant contrast.
Autaud wanted to represent people's true thoughts that they were afraid to say, he knew people had sexual fantasies, this was used a lot in this scene.
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