Chinese Takeaway Performed by Anna Yen

Chinese fool away Away performed as a only by Anna Yen, was genuinely successful at exploitation images, symbols and actions to lead the audience in a sequence to bring in her life fable. In this solo performance, there were many unlike components of Annas life that were conveyed finished symbols, through images and natural theatre. Symbols such(prenominal) as the Silk River, which signified her former(prenominal) and how she terminaled up evaluate it, the sound of a toll which only chimed when ever versed abuse occurred in the story and also her use of physical theatre to convey divergent situations her grandmother, mother and herself went through.\nThroughout Annas story she uses a tenacious blue silk stuff, which is laid across that stage like a river. As the story progresses the silk river becomes more than and more symbolicalal to Annas life story. Annas mammy tried to commit self-annihilation twice in this play. She uses the silk river to try and end her life by lying on it and cast almost symbolising that she is attempting to flood out herself. In this scene she is full dressed and does not observe in her attempt. The second clipping towards the end of the story she tries one time again, but this time she in the altogether. She swims in the silk river nude because there is slide fastener separating her from her past. Anna rolls around in the river and and then slowly wraps the cloth around her neck like a knoose to convey that fact that she has hung herself in a knoose of water. The river is real symbolic in imparting Annas past. Another scene which is very significant in conveying Annas story by using the silk river, is when she beats 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 point where she had to accept her past. She did this by draping the cloth over her naked body to convey that she is accept her childhood past and is not judgmental of it.\nThere is the symbolic sound of a bell whic...