Our own Yakima Valley Community College (YVCC) Playmasters presents, Prelude to a Kiss. This past week in YVCC’s Kendal Hall Auditorium, Alicia Bickley directed the Playmasters through the film based in the late 1980’s on the Manhattan scene. Prelude to a Kiss was fulfilled with love, envy, doubt, and anticipation while in someone else’s shoes. Prelude to a Kiss has a cast of characters; Peter, Rita, the Old Man, and Dr. Boyle with his wife, Mrs. Boyle. The main characters within the show would be Peter, Rita, and the Old Man. Peter would be considered as the protagonist, and the Old Man playing the antagonist. Peter meets Rita and they immediately fall in love with each other. Peter asks Rita to marry him and are soon to be married shortly …show more content…
She talked about having kids, as before she didn’t want kids. Rita was putting on a lot of sunblock lotion, compared to before she had not used as much and she even slept good, compared to not sleeping good in previous years. Upon arrival at home, Peter asks Rita’s dad about her unusual consciousness. Rita’s dad, Dr. Boyle, says marriage does that to people. Unfortunately, Rita talks to her parents and they take her away on a trip, due to Peter asking who she really was. So, in Rita’s body the Old Man opposed …show more content…
First, all Greek dramas suck, and nobody learns anything. In my opinion, Prelude to a Kiss has a moral of the story, along with not everyone dying. The subtext of the show meaning, accept who you are, including all your mistakes. The Old Man wanted to “shine” like Rita was during the wedding, and he also wanted to relive certain moments, the right way, while in Rita’s body. Ultimately, the Old Man was doing what he should have been doing while he was younger while in Rita’s body. I would call this a “Lesson’s Learned” type of show, hence learning from their own mistakes and following those lessons while in the new
The first main character is Samantha Keyes, also known as Sammy. Sammy has a great personality. She's very spunky,creative and curious about everything. She will always try to invest into something and learn more about it. She lives with her grandma, because her mom went to hollywood to try to become successful as an actor. She has some really close friends, like Dot and Marissa, but a lot of people at school don’t get her and make fun of her. The next main character is Ritas Keyes or “Grams”, Sammy's grandmother. Sammy
T’was the eve of Tuesday, January 28, 2014, where at 8pm, I attended the performance, Boeing, Boeing at the Venice Theater Main stage with my younger sister. After reading a quick preview of this play, I decided to see this as one of my required three because I was very intrigued in twisted love stories such as this one.
The main character is Andy, a fifteen-year old boy. The other main character is Andy's dad, Mr. Zadinski. Hes a professor at Madison College. Paul was Andy's best friend who tried to help him with his problem. Mr. Lucas is also a professor who makes prank calls to Andy about killing someone. Nina Klemmer was a college student who was being stalked.
(74) His first concern is himself and asks Rita “Is it because you think I got no soul or some crap like that, isn’t it?” (74). He feels that his race is the reason Rita has been avoiding him. He reasons that the tension existing between him and Rita is because Rita disagrees with his beliefs and upbringing.
The first character that stood out the most for me was Peter also known as “The Boy” because his character changed the most from the beginning to the end of the show. At the beginning of the performance, we saw a hopeless, nameless, and friendless orphan who expressed a lot of anger and frustration not only through his words but through his physical actions. I could
One of the most celebrated plays in history, “Romeo and Juliet”, was written by William Shakespeare in the late 16th century. It is a story about two lovers that have to meet in secret because of an ongoing family feud. Tragically, because of their forbidden love Romeo and Juliet take their lives so they can be together. In 1997, a movie was adapted from the play “Romeo and Juliet”, directed by Baz Lurhmann. However, as alike as the movie and the play are, they are also relatively different.
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.
From the very first words of the play’s introduction, we are reminded of the lover’s fate in Romeo and Juliet and how it affects their world. The prologue in a work of literature is meant to introduce the story, as shakespeare so often does in his plays such as Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare introduces Romeo and Juliet with the lines “From forth the fatal loins of two foes/A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;Whose misadventured piteous overthrows/Do with their death bury their parents' strife.” (I.I.V-VIII) It may seem as if Shakespeare decided to spoil the end of his tragedy for his audience before it even started. In fact, some might have been angry at Shakesp...
Act one is entitled Bad News opening with Rabbi Isador Chemelwitz talking to about the death of Louis’s grandmother at the funeral. Prior, Louis’s gay lover, reveals to Louis at this time that he is suffering from AIDs. Louis leaves in shock and fear to bury his grandmother. Meanwhile, Joe Pitt, a closeted homosexual mormon is offered a job in Washington D.C. by his boss Roy Cohn. Joe says he will think about it and needs ...
The audience sees through staging and conversation between the two main characters that the communication of modern relationships
There is a large cast of characters including the priest Sarastro (a very serious, proselytizing basso), the Queen of the Night (a mean, angry, scheming coloratura), and her daughter, the beautiful and courageous Pamina. There is the handsome hero, Tamino, on the quintessential road trip, and his cohort in misadventure, the bird seller, Papageno. Papageno ultimately finds his Papagena (who starts out disguised as a crone), Tamino ultimately wins Pamina, Sarastro presumably wins a passle of converts, and everyone goes home humming the catchy Mozart melodies. It is all presented in a plot complicated by a dragon, a threesome of warbling ladies in service to the Queen of the Night, another threesome of boy-angels, even a bully - Monostatos, guard for the Queen. It is lightened by such elements as locked lips, charmed animals, and, of course, a magic flute.
William Shakespeare once told us, "All the World’s a Stage" —and now his quote can be applied to his own life as it is portrayed in the recent film, Shakespeare In Love. This 1998 motion picture prospered with the creative scripting of Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman and direction of John Madden. The combined effort of these men, on top of many other elements, produced a film that can equally be enjoyed by the Shakespeare lover for its literary brilliance, or for the romantic viewer who wants to experience a passionate love story.
Choose either Tom, Amanda or Laura and argue that the character is the main character in the story.
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"I had no idea what I was going to make of my life, but I had given a promise and found my innocence. I swore I'd never lose it again." Those words spoken by Rita at the end of the novel seem to support Killens' appraisal. However, while an eighteen-year-old mother, who has had numerous failures and even a greater number of affairs, may know "the meaning of a struggle" quite well, it is not so that she never loses her pride or dignity. In fact, it is doubtful as to whether or not, even by the stories end, she has yet found it. One may argue that she found her pride and dignity after she stopped smoking pot or after she stopped prostituting or after (about the fifth time) she promised herself she would get her life together. Unfortunately, none of these are valid, for Rita did not actually discontinue the use of pot, she just ran out. Rita sleeps with a drug addict named Troubadour Martin for the security she thought she would receive from him.