Thursday, November 29, 2012
Our Town
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Our Town
Monday, November 26, 2012
Our Town
Our Town
Our Town
The amazing message Thornton Wilder coveys through this play is the meaning and expense of life, love and other mysteries. I love the end of this play where Emily finds re-living her life far too painful and begins to realize how many people including herself waste their life on so many other things but happiness. Each of the characters in this play have such important and separate parts, even the milk-man has a solid influence in this play. One of there best endings to a play is the end to THIS PLAY.The Stage Manager concludes the play, reflecting on the probable lack of life beyond Earth, and wishes the audience a good night. This is gold to me.
Our Town
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
That Girl Knows Her Place.. On Top
Top Girls
Monday, November 12, 2012
Top Girls and Feminism
Top Girls was a very pleasant read that was a bit abstract at times, but brought the overall message of how our society is still dealing with gender equality and the struggle that women face to become better than their male counterparts. The structure is very unconventional, however, the dreamlike style that lives inside of this script complemented what Caryl Churchill was trying to translate. I would love to see this performed, especially with all of the historical figures being parallel to the actual characters in the main story line.
Top Girls
Top Girls
Top Girls
THis play is non-linear which makes it more contemporary and the way it compares the past present and the future really makes for an interesting view on women in society.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
That West Is True-er Than The East
I hate reading, as you may know by now, I absolutely loathe it. It frustrates me and its hard to concentrate with small letters; I begin to read the same sentence over and over again. But this play, just like a few others assigned in this class was pretty simple and straight forward to read. The plot was a bit much in my opinion, and the characters weren't all like able (especially Lee), but it wasn't a hard read. My favorite character was Mom.. she was just the oddest person to me, I loved it. The play itself was a bit annoying, the drama was heightened and I wanted to laugh while reading it, maybe I was in a bad mood, but I just wasn't ready for it.
true west
Monday, November 5, 2012
True West
Regardless, I found this play to be excellent, from its ominous opening to it's startling closing moments. Sam Shepard is a fabulous master American dramatist, and I would definitely like to read more of his works to tie in his theme in True West with his style throughout his other various works.
True West
thE tRue "wiLd wiLD" wEst y'AlL
True West
Shepard does a good job of showing How Lee comes into Austins life and truly flips his world upside down as the seemingly switch lives and turn on each other as well as ending up collaborating on a screenplay together
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Blithe Spirit
blithe spirit
Blithe Spirit
I Know That's A Blithe Spirit.!
I am not a fan of reading plays, as you might know, but some plays are so much more simple and fun to read than others; Blithe Spirit is one of those plays. Fortunately for me, I've done a few scenes from it and some of my fellow classmates are performing in it this season. Noel Coward created such a lovable group of characters, I can't deal. For the most part, each person had a quality of comedy, wit, and human-ness. Even though Elvira was a ghost, the only times I ever thought about her like that was when she would play with Charles and Ruth. Elvira was my favorite character, she is just above Charles (only because I played Charles in the scenes I did). Elvira is the life of the play, ironic because she is most definitely dead, she creates interesting situations, drama, and knows how to keep everything interesting. I liked reading this play, and I'm sure I'll love watching it this Friday when it opens at loyola.