Random moments I've witnessed

These are some random moments I have witnessed before which could possibly be used in theatre.

1) LITTLE BOY SHOCKED

Once I was waiting in line with my mother, and this little japanese boy (around the age of 6) was running around and messing around. but upon hearing my mother and I speaking portuguese, he froze and stared at us, looking at us like were aliens or something. This created humor because of the contrast between his activeness and still reaction.
After thinking this awhile, I realised that we HAVE used this before. This technique was used in Tina! in the secretary scene where Zebub comes out for the first time. When the secretaries heard his voice, they start screaming and started to become agitated, but when he comes out dancing, they all freeze and let their mouths drop open.
This was what created humor in this scene.

However contrast also can enhance other things such as fear, or tension. it makes the scene more memorable.
I once watched a scene from a Brazilian soap opera, and one death scene that I thought was very powerful was when a lady was dying in a hospital. Both her husband and her lover (who she had an affair with) were there. She started to shout and beg for her husband to forgive her lover and kept shouting then suddenly there was a long beep. And she froze, then slowly laid her head down. She was dead.
I remember this scene clearly because of the use of the contrast between when she was dying and when she was dead.

Also, Mr Evans had told me this story of a couple he knew when the girl smiled and said to guy "you can rot in hell." This makes the situation scarier, again, because of the contrast. Looking nicely and saying something very unpleasant evokes a sense of fear in the audience, which again, makes the scene more memorable.

2) TENSION DURING HOCKEY TOURNAMENT

While I was in my Field Hockey Tournament, the other varsity team were in the semi-finals, and they had just drawn the game. So the referees had continued the dispute with penalties. Each member would go forth and try to get the ball into the goal. Even by just watching, this one-on-one situation had my heart racing and i was "on the edge of my seat."
Then on the way back, I wondered why I had felt so nervous just by watching the game.
Then I referred back to the lessons on the theatre elements.
Tension was one of them and I identified this moment as the Tension built by task.
The task was to get more goals in than the opponent. It was almost as if I was asking myself, "Will they get it in?" "Will the goalie miss?" "What if this goes wrong?"

3) LADY ON PHONE

While I was walking in Motomachi Street, I saw a lady of around 20 to 25 years of age and she was on her celphone. The first thing I noticed was that her voice was extremely loud. I then realized that she was fighting over the phone with someone. The most interesting part of this moment was the reactions of others. Anyone that passed didnt fail to glance at this lady.
Also, I referred this moment to my past productions. The reactions of others is what makes the situation realistic. For example, in Woyzeck, while the grandma was blabbing on about her little story the other three girls would be looking at each other and exchanging puzzled looks. They then would gather and then run after the grandma worried that she had gone crazy. If the girls had just stood there, then the scene would not have been realistic enough. The reactions of other characters develops the characters themselves and also the relationship between them. In this case, the audience could infer that the grandma was a bit crazy and also that the three girls were some kind of family to her.