The Wonderful World of Dissocia, by Anthony Neilson was originally workshopped in 2002, and then re-written and produced for the Glasgow's Tron Theatre in 2004.
The play is set in two acts. With the first being very much colourful and exciting, with lots of very outlandish characters and story lines, where as the contrasting second act has little to no colour and it set in one place, a room in a psychiatric ward. And the characters are very much normal people with no sort of excitement coming from any of them.
The first act can be seen as the inside of Lisa's head. With all of the colours and craziness reflecting her illness. We plan on doing this through the use of colour in our costumes, and the few props tat are used. The second act shows how repetitive and dull life can be in a psychiatric ward with very naturalistic style in both set and acting.
My first impressions of the script is that there is a definite contrast between the two acts in the language that is used. The first act is in an imaginative world with all sorts happening that wouldn't happen in a normal everyday world. Such as goats talking to people and there being a talking polar bear. But in the second act there is normal everyday language that would be used in hospital and normal story lines involving people that would actually exist, like the nurses and Vince. I skim read the script when I first received it to get a general feel for it and to get a feel for how the story goes. I then read through it all in more detail especially my scenes so I could work on understanding how my lines and scenes had an effect on the story and I could start learning my lines.
The contrast between reality and fantasy is similar to the way that Alice In Wonderland works. With a person who thinks they are not in a dream or fantasy although they are.
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