The Hard Nut Essay -- Drama

The Hard Nut============The Hard Nut Is Based On The Nutcracker and pinch King by ETAHoffmann, the dance company they used was the Mark Morris Company andthe music is by Tchaikovsky. The director of the Hard Nut has not beenoriginal, as he has used the same music from the original Nutcracker.The video is a live recording. suffice 1The opening scene starts with three people on the defend dressed asyoung children, they have their backs to the audience and are dressedin a black and white style, and the curtains are drawn.The curtains go up and Act One Begins. The scenery is black and whitethere is also a big door bigger than the characters on the power point. Thethree main characters on the award are children we can secernate this bythe way they are acting and the facial expressions they pull. Thedirector is dealing with gender issues a lot of the women are vieby men. The dance style they are using is ballet.The huge door opens and the set changes to a living room stylesetting. It is around Christmas we can tell this, as there is aChristmas tree in the corner of the stage. The characters are dressedin green and red which are the colours of Christmas. In the long time werethe musical is set they did not have coloured televisions thetelevision starts to go colour and the music starts to be multipurposeas if there is a fire. by dint ofout the play the use of humour is quitebig. The three children are now obviously in their Christmas suits theoldest girl showing off all dressed up whilst the opposite is quiet anddressed in pink diverse from the rest, she is overlooked by peoplevery sensible and very shy.Everybody on the stage pairs up and are dancing in couples apart fromthe youngest child who is in the pink, she is being ignored but istrying hard to involve herself. The girl then notices a man cominginto the house she makes a fuss and everybody notices and actssurprised. The man appears to be a joker always wants to be the centreof attention and loves the quiet girl. He brings in two life sizepresents and the young girl and boy open them, two giant toys come outand begin a duet but they are using the people around them to do theduet including the children. They are using sharp isolated movementsacting like robots, using contrasting motifs.The family then get back into partners and begin the duets again... ... look on their faces and startrunning around in circles and the kiss againThe characters start to run diagonally across the stage in duets andform a huge circle. The use lots of pirouettes all at the same timeand then exit the stage with leaps. It leads to the girl and thenutcracker again, showing that they are deeply in love. They performanother duet and kiss again and again. They use movements to show theyare in love like smooth runs and turns. They travel away from eachother and come back together showing they are reaching for eachothers love The music becomes grand and they both take centre stage,a new drop down sheet comes down with all different toys on and themusic gets faster and faster.They run of and the black and white scene from the start comes back.The stage is now back to the opening scene with the television political program on. The maid comes in going mad and turns the televisionoff. The audience start clapping as the characters come on in duetsbow and go through the door apart from the girl and the nutcracker.They finally come on last and the curtain goes up all the charactersare in positions and the girl and nutcracker nitty-gritty them.