... theatre. The exploitation and success of these practices can be seen through the analysis of characterizations, acting technique, dramatization, sound, lighting, and prop usage. Central to Lawson's production was Symbolism - the systematic use of symbols to represent or allude to something, a subversion of what is "real". Throughout the production Lawson creatively put the techniques of Symbolism to work in the form of staging, prop use, characterization, sound, and lighting. Even the title was apt. The siblings representational of wild-eyed feral creatures, yapping and snapping at each other, scavenging like dingoes, their survival instincts driving away the normal social niceties of urban existence. Designer Bruce McKinven created a significant set of a broken down Queenslander pungent with age and decay. The lattice fencing of the house in which Claire occasionally hid behind listening and watching her children was an unsettling symbolisation of a preying captive anima. Her children talk irrespectively ...

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