Shoe Horn Sonata :: John Misto

The Shoe- Horn Sonata***The Shoe- Horn Sonata is a play by buns Misto that gives an insight into two lives of two feminine POWs in WW II and is a vector of Mistos thoughts. It explores the little known and often terrible events associated with female prisoners of war. The play follows a friendship of two women through the war to a point of tension thats beyond what any normal friendship would get under ones skin to deal with. Misto engages his hearing by using a mickle of mediums to portray his story creating a truly multimedia performance. The playwright challenges the audience to look beyond this to the underlying ideas of survival, loyalty and truth.***The play opens with a purview almost as hammy as the characters, introducing Bridie. She stands on a blaze demonstrating the Kow Tow bow for respect in the centre of the stage then claps her hands sternly, immediately revealing the strong assertive spirit of her character. The audiences become intrigued, and listen as she straightens difficulty from the Kow Tow, showing she is forceful and ticklish but not young. As the On Air sign becomes macroscopic the audiences realize she is macrocosm interviewed as she informs her audience she had enlisted in WW II future(a) her dads footsteps. She tells her audience that her father gave her a Shoe-horn and two pieces of advice, outweart sit on a toilet seat until you have lined it with toilet paper and Never kiss a Pommie on the lips.A marching song Fall in Brother was hear as images became visible on the screen of Women Disembarking Singapore. Misto created a dramatic atmosphere that captured the audiences attention right through the introduction.The present moment outlook appeared to be in the motel room where Bridies Friend Sheila is introduced. This exposure was in the Motel Room, which was used several times in the play being a place where private revelation and growing tension amidst Bridie and Sheila took place. Tension betwe en the two took place immediately in scene two as, Bridie and Sheila stop in the doorway. There is slight but plain tension between them,Silence and body language were used by the two characters to create such tension towards the audiences as it is a feeling which no words can cater for or adequately express.