Opening up a script is equivalent to the most stunning smile one has ever seen. I love being introduce to the different varieties of plays. “The Best Man” by Gore Vidal was a difficult play to start off with. The first scene was slow and the plot was slightly confusing. Once I got past that scene my interest for the play expanded. I started to sympathize with some of the characters and distrust others. A couple of parts left me astonished and somber. I was intrigued throughout the entire script, turning each page with anticipation. “To want power is corruption,” stated by my favorite character from “The Best Man,” Arthur Hockstader. I like Hockstader the most because he’s cunning and whimsical. He’s particularly cunning when he talks to Russell …show more content…
That is to say he doesn’t do well with playing nicely. The man can act marvelously in front of the press, but when it comes down to his competition, he will do anything to win. In Hockstader’s mind this makes a strong president, he eventually changes heart when he realizes that Cantwell is stupid. To change the topic, when Hockstader said, ”And to think! I was going to endorse you for president.” It astounded me that he had a change of heart, I expected him to go through with it even if Cantwell is “a stupid bastard.” At any rate, Cantwell is a deceitful man, in fact he stole Russell’s private health records and set up a time to blackmail him with it. This man is indeed despicable and my least favorite character in the play. My second least beloved character is Mabel Cantwell, Joseph’s wife. She is a braggart and rude. For example, at the beginning of act two Alice tries to speak, but Mabel interrupts her and talks about her own husband. First off, that’s rude; Alice was being asked a question and Mabel, being the bragger she is, has to make sure that the press knows more about her husband then Alice’s. I personally would have punched her in the face from pure frustration, but Alice has a better temper than me. Similarly on page 61 Mabel says,”I just don’t know how they can use something like that which is so untrue, which is a dirty lie and everybody knew it was a lie even at the time. Oh, how I hate
The corruptive nature of power can be observed in both novels Animal Farm by George Orwell (1945) and The Wave by Todd Strasser (1981). In the wise words of Lord Acton, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." (Phrase Finder, 2012) The simple nature of mankind is to want power and when man achieves this, he gets addicted, wants more and thus becomes corrupt. This exploitation of dominance relates to when the dictator loses his moral values and abuses power purely for his own benefit and loses sight of what the initial goals were. Even the best intentions, such as those that were only just formed in Animal Farm and The Wave, can be distorted by the basic human instinct of selfishness
Warriors Don 't Cry is a memoir written by Melba Pattillo Beals. It is about the author herself as a young girl named Melba, who grew up in a society of segregation. Nine students, including Beals, have the chance to integrate a white school called Central High. Mobs of white people were against it and would harass them and even try to kill them. Three elements used in this memoir are first point of view, character and plot. Furthermore, Warriors Don 't Cry has the theme of courage.
A warrior is a hero, a role-model, fearless, loyal, persevering, brave - there are few that are able to fulfill these standards. Yet Melba Beals, a fifteen year old girl, not only claims this illusive role, but cannot escape it. Through the journey into integration Melba acts as a dynamic juxtaposition, moving from a scared little girl to a fierce soldier, yet never truly satisfied with her position. This conflict arises from her personal, family, and religious values, the impact of integration in Little Rock, and her experiences during her time at Central High. The title Warriors Don't Cry is employed as a command as well as a way of life and later a regret as this memoir progresses.
Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play was a very interesting and excited play to see. Watching the play I really had to think because of the twists that came with the play. The author of this play was Anne Washburn, Michael Friedman scored it, and the lyrics were also from Anne Washburn. Casey Sams directed the play and Terry Silver-Alford was the musical director. I viewed this play at the Lab Theatre on Thursday, November 12, 2015 at 7:30 in the evening. The Clarence Brown Theatre and Lab Theatre located on the University of Tennessee main campus produced this production. Melissa David recognized, as Colleen/Bart is a San Francisco native that has been working as a MFA acting candidate for the past three years. Robert Parking Jenkins,
Opening the performance is the chorus who, uncommonly, explains the whole plot in just 14 lines before the play has even properly started. This is not commonplace in a play as it leaves no suspence. However, it would intrigue the audience who will want to stay and find out how and why the events told in the prologue happen.
On April 12, 2014 at 7:30 pm, I gratefully attended the musical Guys and Dolls at Ouachita Baptist University's auditorium. Directed by Daniel Inouye, this wonderful play is based on the story and characters of Damon Runyan. These stories which were written in the 1920s and 1930s, involved gangsters, gamblers, and other characters from the New York underworld. The premiere of Guys and Dolls on Broadway was in 1950 where it ran 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical had many Broadway revivals and was even turned into a film in 1955.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz is the director of Guys and Dolls, and the head authors of the screenplay are Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, who wrote the screenplay based upon the play Guys and Dolls. Joseph L. Mankiewicz has directed in total 22 films; he is known for All About Eve (1950), Julius Caesar (1953), Guys and Dolls (1955), The Quiet American (1958), and Cleopatra (1963). The lead screenplay author, Jo Swerling, has written in total 68 screenplays; his more well known are The Whole Town’s Talking (1935), The Westerner (1940), Lifeboat (1944), It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), and Guys and Dolls (1955). Abe Burrows has written 12 films, and his most well known are Guys and Dolls (1955) and Just Go With It (2011).
It was very nice to read something that had a lot of drama and suspense. This story has a mix of everything. It has a bit of suspense, drama, and comedy; therefore, it led it to be a very nice play. The people that would most like this play, has to be people who like suspense, drama, and thriller. These people would like it, because this story has a mix of everything, so the people who like to have a mix in their stories, they will love this story. It will suit them, and will give them a pleasure of reading a nice
As Lord Acton put it in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." This is the truth that is evident both in Ken Kesey book One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. His main characters Nurse Ratched and Randal McMurphy are in a subtle underground war against each other's accumulating power, and corruptness. This idea of great men being bad men is evident in Kesey's book, my experiences, and society in general.
On May 4, 2017, the Department of Theatre and Speech at the City College of New York held their annual, "One Act Play Festival," in room 310 at the Compton-Goethals Hall. One play stood out from the others during this festival. That play was "Dos Corazones". This play was directed by Laixsa Mercado.
Many empirical things can often still be debated and refuted by experts, but there is a general admittance to the idea that power is the root of many evil things. In all fairness, we must admit that a many evil things can in their essence, be great. And that is one of the many theories advanced by Niccolo Machiavelli in his well-known work, The Prince. The Prince serves a dual purpose of both teaching a person how to attain power, but also how to retain it. Incredibly enough, history has proven most of Machiavelli’s findings and theories to work well, while some have failed to effectively secure power for the rulers who did, in fact try them. His work, does obviously highlight one main fact, which is, that power is a well sought-after attribute, and most who attain are willing to do whatever is necessary to keep it.
Every father shows the love for his son in a different way. in this scene, we the father shows us the different way. However, a father gets angry about his son. The son asked a simple question but the meaning on that question was big. The question was "How come you ain't never liked me?". The Fences play by August Wilson, this play they did it more than once on some different times, places, actors, etc. However, in this paper you are going to find comparison between two scenes the first was on 1987 and the actor was James Earl Jones, The second scene by Denzel Washington on 2010. Now you will find the actor’s approach, approaching the idea from the text, and the effective and the ineffective of the scenes.
Don Manuel is presented as the perfect man, kind, selfless, gifted, and compassionate, at least in part to show the villagers' conflation of their love of him and their devotion to their religion. In one of my favorite musicals, Jesus Christ Superstar, the character of Judas pleads with Jesus to quell the movement growing around him, saying "You've begun to matter more than the things you say. " In much the same way, Don Manuel matters more to the people than the things he says, so much so that they fail to notice that he doesn't actually believe the things he preaches to them, specifically concerning the afterlife. This is especially interesting considering Christianity's simultaneous worship of a perfect human being in the form of Jesus Christ
In which case this idea of power leading to corruption is not only true but happens to those least expected to. In William Shakespeares' tragedy, Macbeth, the character Macbeth gains power by killing people and lying, he kills king Duncan out of greed, he kills his "best friends" Banquo out of fear, and then fails to realize that he is not invincible. Power leading to corruption is more of a fact than an idea, in most cases when all is said and done the one with the power isn't who they said they'd be. Macbeth was once a Scottish nobleman whose greed for power became overwhelming, leading to his own demise. Shakespeare begins Macbeth, with the appearance of three witches.
In Noh there are many things that are significant, and that have deeper meanings. For instance the simple way that they walk, sing, and move all mean something more. While doing the presentations on a Noh play I noticed something beautiful about the play that I had chosen. Spring was mentioned a lot, it had many cameos in the play. In Yuya the entire back story of the play is the discussions of going to see the cherry blossoms. Spring in Japan means a whole lot more than just another season. It means new life, and new beginnings, a way for family to come together and start anew. So while taking this course I really picked up on the seasonal aspect of Noh whether it be spring, autumn, summer, or winter. Each setting gave a new feeling of how people reacted, and it’s true in real life also. So in this essay even though spring will be the main topic I will be discussing all of the seasons and what they mean in Japanese culture, with some symbolic things and Noh examples also.