Grin & Tonic theatre company has cultivated around 60,000 students per year through the young actors engaging their audiences, intriguing performances and educating workshops all over Queensland for over forty years. The company adapted the original April’s Fool to be suitable for schools, making it a shorter performance but keeping the important information so the audience still gets an authentic piece. Brooke and Nathan are a part of the Grin & Tonic team they play the many characters that bring this show to life. The production of April’s Fool Redux uses a variety of Dramatic elements such as relationship, symbols, and role. The conventions of form and style in Drama used are duologues, storytelling, and multi rolling. A combination of these help to convey empathy towards the family and friends as they tell the audience about Krisjan Teraud’s life and death. The audience is helped to connect with the characters, by the way, their …show more content…
Away from a story is told can make or break a performance. In this performance, the symbol of red converse represents Krisjan since they did not use an actor on stage to play the central character. the shoe a used a representation. Since the shoes represent a person the movement of them must be big and noticed. The first scene is when they are introducing Krisjan and they first mention him these red converses that stand out from the rest of the set land of this stand and just sit there represent this character. One of the final scenes is when Krisjan dies in the telling of this scene they move the shoes for this podium to the chair that was being used as a hospital bed. This symbol that Krisjan has died. When a person dies it affects everyone in different ways. Even though there is no actor playing Krisjan, just having this big dramatic movement means the audience understood the placing of the shoes to signify