Chinese Takeaway Performed by Anna Yen

Chinese Take Away performed as a solo by Anna Yen, was in truth successful at using images, symbols and actions to lead the auditory modality in a rate to understand her living floor. In this solo performance, in that location were umpteen different components of Annas life sentence that were developed through symbols, through images and corporal theatre. Symbols such as the Silk River, which signified her then(prenominal) and how she ended up asking it, the sound of a Gong which only chimed when constantly sexual ab physical exertion occurred in the baloney and also her use of physical theatre to withdraw different situations her grandmother, mother and herself went through.\n passim Annas fiction she uses a long blue silk framework, which is place across that stage give care a river. As the story progresses the silk river becomes more and more symbolical to Annas life story. Annas mum tried to file suicide twice in this play. She uses the silk river to try and en d her life by lying on it and rolling around symbolising that she is attempting to drown herself. In this sen cartridge clipnt she is fully dressed and does not succeed in her attempt. The secondment time towards the end of the story she tries once again, but this time she naked. She swims in the silk river nude because there is nothing separating her from her past. Anna rolls around in the river and then slowly wraps the cloth around her neck standardised a knoose to convey that circumstance that she has hung herself in a knoose of water. The river is very symbolic in transport Annas past. Another tantrum which is very significant in conveying Annas story by using the silk river, is when she defeat and bashes the cloth on the floor. She does this because she is wroth 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 all over her naked body to convey that she is ac cepting her childhood past and is not judgmental of it.\n there is the symbolic sound of a gong whic...