One Act Play Festival included two different plays, one titled Corps Values and the other titled Lover’s Quarrel. Corps Values was written by Brendon Bates and directed by Imani McDaniel. It featured eight actors playing one role apiece, and takes place in 2004 during the Iraq War in the rural Pennsylvanian home of a Vietnam War veteran. The plot of the play occurs over the course of no more than a few hours, though flashback scenes are periodically acted out in order to explain the current events through the memories of past events. The overall mood was one of anxiety. The mood of Lover’s Quarrel, on the other hand, seemed to alternate between humor and suspense. It was written and directed by Jason Tague. The setting is the home of a family …show more content…
They discuss the whereabouts of Wade’s son, Casey Taylor, who was supposed to return to Iraq for the war but never arrived to be taken over. Through flashbacks, the audience learns that Casey no longer supports the war and planned on going AWOL in order to attend a rally in Washington, D.C. in protest of the war. Despite others’ insistence on returning to Iraq for the remaining six months, Casey offers several excuses for staying behind, including the gruesomeness of the deaths he has witnessed and his pregnant girlfriend. At last, Wade begins to sympathize with his son. In Lover’s Quarrel, a married couple, Michael and Sarah Carson, are experiencing problems in their relationship when one of Sarah’s friends from high school, Ash Gartenberg, suddenly arrives at their doorstep. What at first seems to be a friendly visit in town turns out to be the result of a decade-long obsession with Sarah, who was the only person who befriended Ash during high school. The story ends with Ash tragically committing suicide after attempting to earn Sarah’s love and murder …show more content…
He was not an extremely complex character, but he seemed to be experiencing a lot of anxiety about the events in his life, and I felt as though I could relate to the stress he must have been feeling. He was not a particularly likeable character, given his angry, erratic, and volatile personality, but I found I could sympathize and even root for him. The actor I thought was most memorable was Chris Kesler, who played Captain Samko. Kesler portrayed Samko as someone I imagine would actually be in the military. He seemed disciplined, straightforward, and determined, and I thought this interpretation of the character was very realistic. The central conflict of Lover’s Quarrel occurs between Ash and the Carsons over Ash’s desire for Sarah, which becomes clear through Ash’s bizarre interactions with Sarah and Michael throughout the play. This conflict was interesting because it was not something that would occur in the average household, so it provided the audience with a glimpse of an extraordinary American life. It held my attention because there was a lot of action that kept me waiting in anticipation of what would happen next. It also interested me because it was emotionally
This one act play is solely about two people who used to be in a relationship, namely Vernon and Lucy. Vernon invited Lucy for a lunch at his place and prepared steak as their meal. The reason Vernon invited Lucy was because his hope for reconciliation and fulfillment for his sexual desires as a man. The scene begins
Firstly let us consider conflict. In each act of the play, we see the overpowering desire to belong leading to a climax of conflict amongst the characters, which has the consequence of exclusion. Conflict is a successful literary technique, as it engages the audience and focuses our attention on the issue of conflict and exclusion, brought about by the characters’ desires to be accepted by their community.
As with most narratives of this genre, the drama comes as a result of the conflict. The way in which conflict is used in this program is in part the reason for its use in understanding family dynamics and
The first time the reader encounters conflict occurs when Elisa is tending to her chrysanthemums in her garden. As she works, Elisa handles the flowers with care and compassion; she makes certain that nothing will come to harm them as though they were her own children; "No aphids were there, no sowbugs or snails or cutworms. Her terrier fingers destroyed such pests before they could get started." (273) When her husband comes to her, as she is working, he does not commend her for her work, but he scorns her, saying "I wish you'd work out in the orchard and raise some apples that big." (273) A high degree of "man against man" conflict is generated by the husband who fails to appreciate his wife and what she treasures. The presence of this conf...
First and foremost, was how Fanny's loving opinion drastically changed towards Ro. “Her voice, so sweet, like dripping honey, had always made things all right with me. Had always put my fears to rest. Now that same voice was saying things I couldn’t abide” (163). As the result of Roseanna creating the coffin quilt, Fanny realized that Ro had changed and was a different person then before. Next was Johnse and Ro's risky love. Disregarding their feuding families, they still ran off together, and planned to get married. “Nothing, honey. You don't say a word. Tell Pa you couldn’t find me. When we're wed we'll let them know, sure 'nuff”(36). Since Roseanna and Johnse loved each other, it created the main conflict, as they ran off together. Lastly, Bill and Bud emotional relationship. “I heard the music before I got to the top. Bill was playing his fiddle softly. The sun still cast a faint light in the west. He was backlit by the light, kneeling by the graves”(167). Since Bill was suffering after the death of his brother, he would play the fiddle by his grave and grieve. Their love was intensified after the passing of Bud. As a final point, love and hate both added tension and conflict between the Hatfield and McCoy
It becomes a new work as she creates a story about liberation for Ginny and Rose. Two characters, who were for the most part neglected in Shakespeare’s, find their own inner peace outside of a life dominated by males. This modern twist adds a new layer to this work and helps form a separation from the play. With a new focus to Ginny and Rose, the readers see and sympathize their struggles with their father. Larry, at first glance a senile old man, is painted in a more sinister light. Ginny and Rose were not bad daughters. When they agreed to the division of the land, there may have been ulterior motives, but it is not simple enough to reduce them to bad daughters. Their actions were responses to the patriarchal environment that they were living in. Rose and Ginny end up escaping this system of patriarchy. They start by resisting their father’s demands and wishes. They seal the end of his reign when they win the lawsuit filed against them for the land. Following this lawsuit, “there could no reconciliation now” (Smiley 326). Larry’s system of patriarchy had fallen, and was damaged beyond repair. Larry’s fall from grace ended with a heart attack in the cereal aisle. A death that his two daughters did not care about. Ginny barely affords three sentences about his death in her narration of this story. An equally unglamorous
All relationships go through both good and bad times. Some last through the ages, while others quickly fall into nothing. In Terrence McNally’s “Lips Together, Teeth Apart,” the heart of this haunting play is a dramatically incisive portrait of two married couples—the Truman’s and the Haddocks. Uncomfortable with themselves and each other, they are forced to spend a Fourth of July weekend at the Fire Island house that the brother of one of the women left his sister when he died of AIDS. Though the house is beautiful, it is as empty as their lives and marriages have become, a symbol of their failed hopes, their rage, their fears, and of the capricious nature of death. The theme of love and death in relationships is quickly developed, as well as an overwhelming fear of homophobia. The two couples McNally brings to life are both going through rough patches in their marriages. While Chloe and John are fighting through John’s esophagus cancer, Sally and Sam are expecting and fearful that this time it will be another miscarriage. Showing how society has struck fear into the couples about AIDS. While everyone except John is worried about catching “AIDS,” the play begins to unveil troubled marriages as well as superficial values and prejudices.
Thomas Ricks, author of “Making the Corps”, gives a description about the United States Marine Corps’ basic military training. The book’s main focal point is Platoon 3086 at Parris Island, S.C., in 1995. Their story is about their eleven weeks boot camp training to become a full-fledged marine. Mr. Ricks writes about what separates the marines from American society, he writes how the Marine Corps differ from other branches of the Unites States military, as well as life after boot camp.
The audience sees through staging and conversation between the two main characters that the communication of modern relationships
Conflict, by definition, is a back and forth struggle between two opposing forces. In the literary work, Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, it is clear, the protagonist, George Milton, undergoes many conflicts that lead to the novel’s overall purpose. Steinbeck weaves together George’s conflicts with others, himself, and with society to illustrate what the true meaning of friendship is.
The Impact of the Opening Quarrel between the Servants in Romeo and Juliet You can examine the dramatic impact of the opening quarrel between the
Making the Corps As a Wall Street Journal Pentagon correspondent, Thomas E. Ricks is one of America’s elite military journalists. He has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and awarded a Society of Professional Journalists Award for his writings based on the Marines. Thomas E. Ricks lectures to military officers and was a member of Harvard University’s Senior Advisory Council on the project on U.S. Civil-Military Relations. As a Pentagon correspondent, he can access information where no other civilian can step foot—traveling with soldiers abroad, his eyes tell the tale of the life of a Marine. In December of 1992, U.S. troops landed in Somalia.
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love”. Throughout The play “proof’ the author David Auburn describe the straggle and emotion of dealing with conflict on an everyday basic between two sisters and their father.
In terms of structure, marriage serves as a prime force of motivation in terms of driving the plot. In conforming to the traditional aspect of dramatic comedy of an end denouement of marriage, Wilde creates adjacent desires for Jack and Algernon whether this is to marry Gwendolyn or Cecily. Thereby the vast majority of events which coalesce to form the play are in relation to this shared desire and therefore the plot is more easily driven. For example, Jack maintains the false persona of ‘Earnest’ in order to marry Gwendolyn which creates humour for the audience as it serves as a reoccurring pun. The resulting comical disorder of this and the impact it has in terms of climaxes, for example; when it becomes apparent that neither Jack nor Algernon are called ‘Earnest’, makes the structural device of marriage even more significant in terms of the play’s effect on the audience. In this, the structure of the play provides greater humour for the audience and emphasises the comic effect of the continuous ‘Earnest’ pun. In Act 1 of the play during the bout of witty repartee between the characters Jack and Algernon, Wilde includes an inversion of the cliché that ‘marriages are made in h...
There are four main couples in the play, but only three couples we could see the development of their love, they are Rosalind and Orlando, Silvius and Phebe, Touchstone and Audrey. Today, I am going to talk about the contrast of love between these three couples.