Chinese Takeaway Performed by Anna Yen

Chinese upshot Away performed as a exclusively by Anna Yen, was actually successful at apply images, symbols and actions to lead the audience in a sequence to make her life report. In this solo performance, there were many diametric components of Annas life that were conveyed by means of symbols, through images and forcible theatre. Symbols such(prenominal) as the Silk River, which signified her preceding(a) and how she poleed up evaluate it, the sound of a ships bell which only chimed when ever versed abuse occurred in the story and also her use of physical theatre to convey unlike situations her grandmother, mother and herself went through. \nThroughout Annas story she uses a recollective blue silk cloth, which is laid crossways that stage like a river. As the story progresses the silk river becomes to a greater extent and more typical to Annas life story. Annas still tried to commit felo-de-se twice in this play. She uses the silk river to travail and end her life by lying on it and roster approximately symbolising that she is attempting to overpower herself. In this scene she is richly dressed and does not come after in her attempt. The second while towards the end of the story she tries at a time again, but this time she bare. She swims in the silk river nude because there is zip separating her from her past. Anna rolls around in the river and wherefore slowly wraps the cloth around her neck like a knoose to convey that fact that she has hung herself in a knoose of water. The river is genuinely symbolic in transferral Annas past. Another scene which is very significant in conveying Annas story by using the silk river, is when she beats and bashes the cloth on the floor. She does this because she is angry at her families past and the silk river killed her mother. In the end Anna came to the point where she had to accept her past. She did this by draping the cloth over her naked body to convey that she is pass judgment her c hildhood past and is not judgmental of it. \nThere is the symbolic sound of a tam-tam whic...