'Chinese Takeaway Performed by Anna Yen'

'Chinese Take off performed as a solo by Anna Yen, was truly sure-fire at employ images, symbols and actions to lead the sense of hearing in a sequence to come across her carriage legend. In this solo performance, in that location were many various components of Annas flavour that were goed by symbols, through images and sensual theatre. Symbols such(prenominal) as the Silk River, which horse sense her ancient and how she terminate up judge it, the sound of a Gong which that chimed when ever inner abuse occurred in the story and overly her use of physical theatre to convey different situations her grand amaze, mother and herself went through.\nThroughout Annas story she uses a long unforgiving silk material, which is laid across that stage bid a river. As the story progresses the silk river becomes to a greater extent and more exemplary to Annas liveliness story. Annas florists chrysanthemum tried to agitate suicide in two ways in this play. She uses t he silk river to settle and end her life by fictionalisation on it and pealing virtually symbolizing that she is attempting to drown herself. In this scene she is richly dressed and does non succeed in her attempt. The second meter towards the end of the story she tries once again, moreover 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 opening like a knoose to convey that position that she has hung herself in a knoose of water. The river is very emblematic in conveying Annas past. another(prenominal) scene which is very significant in conveying Annas story by using the silk river, is when she get the better of 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 express where she had to accept her past. She did this by drapin g the cloth over her naked dust to convey that she is judge her childhood past and is not faultfinding(prenominal) of it.\nThere is the symbolic sound of a gong whic... '