Chinese Takeaway Performed by Anna Yen

Chinese Take international performed as a solely by Anna Yen, was very sure-fire at employ images, symbols and actions to consort the audience in a sequence to understand her flavour account. In this solo performance, there were many different components of Annas biography that were stockpileed done symbols, through images and physical champaign. Symbols such as the Silk River, which signified her olden and how she terminate up accepting it, the threatening of a Gong which alone chimed when ever sexual clapperclaw occurred in the story and also her use of physical theatre to convey different situations her grand acquire, mother and herself went through.\nThroughout Annas story she uses a long toothsome silk fabric, which is laid across that horizontal surface like a river. As the story progresses the silk river becomes to a greater extent and more symbolic to Annas life story. Annas mum tested to commit suicide twice in this play. She uses the silk river to try and destroy her life by manufacturing on it and rolling nearly symbolising that she is attempting to drown herself. In this scene she is fully dressed and does not succeed in her attempt. The second time towards the stamp out of the story she tries once again, just this time she naked. She swims in the silk river nude person because there is nothing separating her from her past. Anna rolls somewhat in the river and then belatedly wraps the cloth around her distinguish like a knoose to convey that fact that she has hung herself in a knoose of water. The river is very symbolic in conveying Annas past. another(prenominal) scene which is very pregnant 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 pane where she had to accept her past. She did this by draping the cloth over her naked proboscis to co nvey that she is accepting her childhood past and is not judgmental of it.\nThere is the symbolic unsounded of a gong whic...