Most of the audience has seen the screen adaptation of V for Vendetta. The quick pacing and constant changes never give the audience a chance to settle into the calmness of a regular …show more content… This is a moment that shouldn’t normally work. The audience is left in suspense through the eerie rhymes and constant movement between quick segments of scenes. Each scene up to this point is selected to be tense and unnerving. This all builds, never-pausing-to-breathe, towards that iconic ill-fated first encounter between Evey and the titular V. Their adaptation rushes forward at a brisk pace: a little girl recites a nursey rhyme recalling the Gunpowder Plot, a now adult character of Evey prepares at work, then must rush home past curfew, running into a security guard she must elude. Johnny and Amy’s group, however, has the answer. This a challenge, for how can a group of performers preserve the sense of surprise and drama for an audience who already knows every twist-and-turn the plot will meander through. Also, due to the popularity of the film adaptation, it is very much a known quantity. It all comes back to the performer’s …show more content… In its most essential essence, V for Vendetta is a tale of suspense, designed as a gripping political thriller. So do performers have any freedom to choose what their piece is about? Or are they just constrained to accurately document the past? How can a performer on a stage hope to compete against a new story, a photograph, or a video clip? This need, an abundance of available information and documentation to scrutiny a performance against, make construction of the performance piece particularly pertinent for Non-fiction. What makes the choice of nonfiction for a performance interesting is how the performance subjects are often already known by the audience.
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