Bouncers - Visual, Aural, and spatial elements

... Bouncers Visual, Aural, and spatial elements The way in which Godber portrays his characters in 'Bouncers' means that there is a lot of complexity in the way the characters have to be placed on stage. All in all, there are over twenty different characters in the play and only four actors. With all of these characters in the play, it could be hard for the audience to differentiate between who is who. However, I feel that this definitely adds something to the performance when the characters have to make subtle or big differences in character's personalities without using props. Costumes are not a big part of 'Bouncers' at all because the characters would wear a tuxedo for the entire play and just change the way in which they speak and act to help the audience see who is who. That does not mean to say that we can just forget about costumes

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