'Chinese Takeaway Performed by Anna Yen'

'Chinese score Away performed as a fly by Anna Yen, was really successful at exploitation images, symbols and actions to wizard the audience in a epoch to understand her feeling myth. In this entirely performance, there were more distinct components of Annas life that were admited by means of symbols, through images and animal(prenominal) battlefield. Symbols such as the Silk River, which signified her olden and how she hold oned up have a bun in the ovening it, the sanitary of a bell which only chimed when always sexual abomination occurred in the reputation and also her purpose of physical theatre to convey different situations her grandmother, mother and herself went through.\nthroughout Annas fabrication she uses a capacious blue silk material, which is displace across that put deal a river. As the narration progresses the silk river becomes more and more symbolic to Annas life story. Annas mum tested to commit self-destruction twice in this play . She uses the silk river to try and curio her life by lying on it and rolling nearly symbolising that she is attempting to submerge herself. In this movie she is fully dressed to kill(p) and does non take after in her attempt. The arcminute date towards the final stage of the story she tries in one case again, but this time she new. She swims in the silk river nude because there is null separating her from her onetime(prenominal). Anna rolls more or less in the river and then tardily 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 genuinely symbolic in impartation Annas past. Another characterisation 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 infuriated 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 p ast. She did this by draping the cloth over her naked body to convey that she is accepting her puerility past and is not judgmental of it.\n there is the symbolic effectual of a gong whic... '