Come one and all for England

stupefy one and all(a) for England, rally to the flag From North and South and East and West Come one and all for England (Cloud 9) Act one of Cloud Nine by Caryl Churchill is set in a British African colony in the nineteenth century. The offset printing scene takes place on the verandah of a house. The scene also opens with an opening song introducing all the char lay outers in the project. forward the show even starts, the twistors come out, not fully dressed, and warm up. I think that this was a directors choice to show the audience which characters are young-bearing(prenominal) and which ones are male.Evelyn Gaynor was one of the actresses who came out before the show in a wig cap to show she was playing a boy in the first act. Evelyn does an excellent Job with transitioning from a male in act one to playing a female in the second act. In the opening scene you becharm Evelyn play the role of young Edward. You absorb Edward tending after Victorias doll, which annoys his develop because he thinks this is unmanly. You also interrogation Edwards sex during this scene because of Evelyns character choices with the doll. Evelyn embraces the doll like it is her prized possession as salubrious as talking to it.All of these interactions with this prop gives the audience a sense that Edward has many feminine qualities. You also sense the feminine qualities in Edward through his interactions with his uncle Harry. You grab the the love Edward has for his uncle in the opening scene and throughout the rest of the first act. At first it looks as if Edward is just longing for that loving father figure that Clive doesnt provide to his son, but as act one proceeds, you find oneself Evelyn make very strong character choices to show that its much than that.You mark Evelyn draw nearer and nearer to Harry each time they are together in a scene. You also see the innocence glistering though Evelyn when she asks her uncle to do that thing again that they did duri ng Harrys last visit. Evelyn beams with happiness when she asks this question which make the performance believable. I honestly believe that Edward doesnt k nowadays the contact of whats going on because Evelyn plays The innocence of Edwards character so well. I facial expression that Evelyns overall intention of playing the part of Edward was to show the Journey of Edwards confessedly truggle.You can see through Evelyns performance that Edward constantly battles with trying to take his father and also be true to himself. Evelyn Does an excellent job in playing the true, young, innocent age of the young Edward. Because Evelyns choices to talk as a would it makes the character more believable. By this, I mean the way she is either whining, pouting, or Just talking as a young peasant would. This helped me to actually picture a young child go though these true struggles with his father as well as his sexuality.At the beginning of act two you can see that Evelyn has made the trans formation from Edward, a male, to Betty, a female. These two characters, in my opinion, are polar opposites, and for Evelyn to master both split is nothing short than amazing. Unlike act one, Evelyn now plays Betty, a now more liberated Betty (unlike Betty in act 1). Evelyn plays this role with the utmost set.. at first. She holds her ground and takes her beats to collect herself during he first clunk of lines but as you see Betty unwind and tell her children about the divorce, you see an underlying anic in Evelyns voice.This shows that Betty still is quite afraid to hold her own. I overall intentions in act two were to be able to outset out by nerselt and realize she doesnt need a man to bread and butter her in order for her to survive. with this said, Evelyn takes us on a Journey of identification by showing each side of the new Betty. You see the stronger, more confident Betty and also the more venerable Betty. You can see that Evelyn chose to show her most venerable point when she was trying to leach onto the lats chance in having a relationship with her own daughter.