(A feeling of complete sorrow fills the entire stage. The sorrow which is present in this scene should not be comparable to the sorrow of saying a final goodbye to a beloved grandmother who died of old age surrounded by her large family with a smile on her face. It should rather be comparable to the gut wrenching sorrow of a mother attending the funeral of her young child who has died at a much too young age after several painful years of trying to fight cancer, without any luck. The sorrow felt while watching how the lid of the coffin is kept on during the funeral, knowing how the surgeries and medication has destroyed the beforehand happy and youthful face beyond recognition, and these having left behind only a mere pained and tortured shell of what her beforehand lovable and happy child used to be.)
Reflection:
This sort of text is different from other texts because it is a stage direction, and therefore not something that the audience will read. It is up to the actor and director to interpret the text as a helpful guideline of how to set the scene and the tone of the play. Therefore it is different in the sense that the audience will never know what it says, and will only know the performers' interpretation of it.
So, I'm guessing your author function is simply 'dramatist'? The stage direction is an interesting type of text, because it has to decide how specific it wants to be and how much freedom it will allow director and actors to have in their interpretation. So, in effect your text is a text not about 'fear' as such, but about how to represent fear.
ReplyDeleteYour reflection essay is a bit too unspecific. It's not enough to say that stage directions are 'different'. One also has to say what it is different from, and how.