World of Wonders Sometimes we take things for granted and don't realize the importance of the people who are already in our lives. I recently attended a play production call the World of Wonders on April 21, 2013 at the Fine Arts Center Mainstage. This play was written by David Lindsay-Abaire, and directed by Ruth Childs. P. Gibson Ralph was the scenic designer, Alyssa Sullivan designed the costumes for the actors, and the stage was managed by Christopher Standhart. This play took place in two different locations which were Brooklyn and Niagara Fall both located in the state of New York. Overall World of Wonders proved that sometimes wanting more in life can cause us to hurt the people we care about. David Lindsay-Abaire was very influential …show more content…
Cody sat on the footstool with his head low, his face was filled with sadness as he listens to his wife say that she was leaving him for an interesting life in Niagara Falls. Cody jumped up before his wife could leave the house, with his whole body, he stretched his arms and legs out as he block the door. He didn't want his wife to leave and his expressions showed how much he cared, and wanted her to stay. Cody then ran across the room to pick up a plate of food and he jumped onto the bed with it. He began to speak in a high tone and told his wife to take the plate of food because she had a long bus ride to Niagara Falls. Cody tried to convince his wife to stay, but she didn't, she had her mind made up and she was leaving. As the play continued there was a scene showing how Cass’s decision to leave really destroyed Cody. He was sitting in a dark room wrapped in a blanket as he held a piece of tissue in his hands. He cried tears of pain with his head held down as he sat in the lonely house, heartbroken from his wife's departure. Something people make choices in life and don't think twice on who are affected by the choices they
The characters address the audience; the fast movement from scene to scene juxtaposing past and present and prevents us from identifying with particular characters, forcing us to assess their points of view; there are few characters who fail to repel us, as they display truly human complexity and fallibility. That fallibility is usually associated with greed and a ruthless disregard for the needs of others. Emotional needs are rarely acknowledged by those most concerned with taking what they maintain is theirs, and this confusion of feeling and finance contributes to the play's ultimate bleak mood.
In conclusion, the story describes that life changes, and nothing stays the same throughout it. It is in the hands of the people to decide that how they want their life to be. They can make it as beautiful as they want to and they can also make it worse than it has ever been
They had a narrator read all about Scott, the teenager who is being charged with DUI. The narrator would explain how bright Scott’s future was. What he would go on to accomplish and how he was a ontrack senior in college. Now that is all gone. His future was shattered because of the choice he made to drink and drive. His job he had lined up, gone now because of the years he would spend in prison. His plan to have a family? Now shattered because how would he care for a family until he is released from prison. Each individual fact they gave about how the accident ruined Scott’s future touched the audience. Who would want to go through that all because of one dumb decision to drink and drive. Every member of the crowd in awe of how messed up his future became in the blink of an
the play. It looks at the person he is and the person he becomes. It
The play shows how Eva Smith is a victim of the attitude of society in
The scenes, which cover thirty years of the characters’ lives from eight to thirty-eight, each revolve around an injury that Doug has acquired through his accident prone life. The play progresses in five year intervals, jumping backwards and forwards, in a nonlinear progression. As they travel and run into each other’s lives, the two characters face new injuries. As the play progresses every five years, a new injury is added to one or both characters. Their lives intersect through these injuries, leading them to compare their wounds, both physical (Doug) and emotional (Kayleen), and drawing them closer together. With each new scene, old injuries and problems may have gotten better or resolved, but some became permanent. Yet, through these experiences, they are bonded together through bloodstains, cuts, and bandages.
...her father’s intense racism and discrimination so she hid the relationship at all costs. Connie realized that she could never marry an African American man because of her father’s racial intolerance. If she were to have a mixed child, that child would be greatly discriminated against because of hypodecent. One day, Connie’s dad heard rumors about her relationship so he drove her car to the middle of nowhere, and tore it apart. Then, he took his shotgun and went to look for Connie and her boyfriend. Connie was warned before her father found her, and she was forced to leave town for over six months. Connie’s father burned her clothes, so she had to leave town with no car, no clothes and no money at sixteen years old. Connie had lived in poverty her entire life, but when she got kicked out she learned to live with no shelter and sometimes no food at all.
Taylor had a goal, a reason to achieve it, had many challenges along the way and in the end found her reason to thrive. Had Taylor stayed in town, there is a good chance she would have followed the rest of her peers, getting pregnant ad married without any thought to the world outside. Taylor Greer learned that she could rise above small town culture, be herself and thrive. This can be a lesson to readers and critics that life is a quest, and the most important part of it is our development and to find our place in the
life in the mid to late twentieth century and the strains of society on African Americans. Set in a small neighborhood of a big city, this play holds much conflict between a father, Troy Maxson, and his two sons, Lyons and Cory. By analyzing the sources of this conflict, one can better appreciate and understand the way the conflict contributes to the meaning of the work.
His position in life can be regarded as symbolic of every black male struggling to provide for his family by any means necessary. Although Walter has a job, it seems inadequate for his survival. As a result, he has become frustrated and lacks good judgement. Throughout this play, Walter searches for the key ingredient that will make his life blissful. His frustrations stem from him not being able to act as a man and provide for his family and grasp hold of his ideals to watch them manifest into a positive situation.
changing attitudes toward life and the other characters in the play, particularly the women; and his reflection on the
”I think I’ll die without you.“ She let herself be reliant on him threefold for physical safety and emotional stability, which was horribly crippling to her growth as a twenty-first century woman and unfair to Tim Haspel. She was using him and his selfless love and support–he renovated the garage into a Writer’s Workshop, told her he understood her detachment and moodiness was needed to channel creative juices into poetry and prose–as a crutch to feed into her destructive urge. She settled, denying herself and in the process denying him. ”Every time I think everything’s going really well. I mean, I try really hard. It all fucks up. And I think that maybe I’m just one of those people that…doesn’t deserve…to be
The plot of the play is simple: Amanda, abandoned of her husband, desperately struggles in order to keep up in a devoid world. This is the more difficult that among the fire escapes and
Tom is a sensitive, artistic man who is forced by circumstances into a phenomenological situation. He is compelled to live and re-live the situation of the play, in which he sought for and found what he believed to be freedom. Although he escapes the situation, he does not find freedom; his consciousness forces him to dwell upon the situation until he finds meaning in it. Because Mr. Wingfield, Laura, Amanda, and Jim are parts of ...
...hut the child out of their lives. Rather than dealing with the mistake or misfortune as a parent should do and stand by their child’s side, both parents ran away and tried to hide from the problem. The feelings of each character were completely forgotten and lost. Each were treated as some sort of object that could be thrown away and replaced. And ultimately, the outcomes in their lives reflected their poor parenting. The choices they made unfortunately came from the lack of skills they were taught when they were young and impressionable. Neither character knows what it is like to be a part of a loving family because they were both used as objects for money or fame. Sadly, the lack of parenting led to the demise of each and we are reminded, from over a hundred years ago as well as today, that successful parenting today will lead to successful adults for the future.