Analysis Of The Spitfire Grill

Every play contains a story and every story, a message. The Spitfire Grill is no exception. This play recounts the story of Percy, a young woman reintegrating with society after spending five hard years in prison. Through newfound friends, Percy finds her way out of the dark and lonely life she’s been living, and into a life where she’s surrounded by people who love her, despite her past. From seeing the show, I can only conclude that two primary themes emerge from Percy’s story: redemption and forgiveness. Not only does Percy learn to forgive herself owing to Shelby’s compassion, but Hannah as well comes to terms with her own failings as a mother.

To begin with, I particularly enjoyed the actors playing Hannah and Eli because each actor appears

It is imperative to understand the significance of the profound effects these elements have on the audience’s response to the play. Without effective and accurate embodiments of the central themes, seeing a play becomes an aimless experience and the meaning of the message is lost. Forgiveness and redemption stand as the central themes of the message in The Spitfire Grill. Actors communicate character development through both nonverbal and verbal cues; their costumes serve as a visual representation of this development by reflecting the personal transformation of each character. In the case of The Spitfire Grill, set design is cut back to allow for the audience’s primary focus to be on the actors and their story. Different from set design, the use of sound and lights in The Spitfire Grill, establishes the mood for the play. In other words, every theatrical element in a play has a purpose; when befittingly manipulated, these elements become the director’s strongest means of expressing central themes, and therefore a means of achieving set objectives. Here again, The Spitfire Grill is no exception. With the support of these theatrical elements, the play’s themes of forgiveness and redemption shine as bright as the moon on