Technicolor Life was written by Jami Brandli and directed by Joseph W. Ritsch. Rep Stage Theater Company performed it in Smith Theater at Howard Community College. Technicolor Life ran from October 21 to November 8. I attended the October 29 performance. The overall production of this play was engaging, exciting and emotionally moving. The basic plot is the life of a smart young girl, Maxine, as her older sister, Billie returns from a deployment in Iraq and as her grandmother becomes ill. Maxine learns some valuable lessons through a series of tense and touching moments with her family. The acting in this play was believable and at times, very intense. It was strong and expressive. Each actor clearly articulated and each was easy to hear and understand. There was great interactions between all the characters. Billie, played by Shayna Blass, was especially moving in her performance as hurting war hero. Her dialogue and movements were a realistic depiction of someone who has been in a war. Billie’s controlled and closed-off movements conveyed how much …show more content…
As this family pushed each other away in their pain and unhappiness, they became unhappy and troubled. However, when they finally came together and began trusting one another, their emotions greatly improved. The play also showed the harsh realities of war and the struggles of those who have seen war. Technicolor Life had a theme of growing hope expressed in the use of color throughout. It achieved these ideas and emotions well, through the acting, dialogue and design. I believe the title is very apt. The play revolves around this idea of color. Maxine was obsessed with the idea of Technicolor movies. She liked how vibrant and happy the people were in comparison to her own life. As the play progresses, she is less interested in those fanciful movies, because her own personal life has become more
This is a written report where my partner on the topic and I presented a ten minute oral summary of our chosen research topic on Technicolor. We chose Technicolor as we felt it had most to say to us, threw the progression of the technology the problems threw out the years of perfecting the technology, to the ultimate glory of the Technicolor experience.
The play, These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich can be summed up just as the main character, Catherine entails. It is “not a fairy tale, though it starts like one, and it is not a tragedy, though it ends like one” (Scene 1, p. 9). Truly, this is an accurate depiction of what the author intended to convey to her audience. It is remarkable how the author was able to twist and spins the words to form the messages she desired. Be that as it may, not everything is splayed across the ink bound pages as precisely as the stars littering the night sky.
The lighting along with the music becomes dim and depressing when Doris reminisces because they also need to reflect her mood. There is also a great use of blackouts in the play. The blackouts represent a
The plot, Jackie navigates the life of a preteen in New York during the 1960s. This plot begins late in Jackie’s life since her story begins 12 years prior which is when she was born but begins at the most present moment in the play which is the now. Although all of the characters are being depicted through one phenomenal actress, the characters are limited to her parents, Perespone and her family, and the friends she makes along the way. As well as the scenes and locales are fairly limited all of the scenes take place on a geographic scale in New York, and on Erickson Street or Manhattan at her private school. This shown the privileges of a small set reaffirms the focus and tightness of the
The play shows how Eva Smith is a victim of the attitude of society in
Caden Cotard is a theater director who is fresh off his last successful production of Death of a Salesman. He was presented a grant and was determined to create a brutally honest play. He gathers together a cast into a warehouse in Manhattan’s theater. He leads them into a celebration of the ordinary, telling them to live out their lives in a small replica of the city outside. As this city inside the warehouse begins to grow, Caden’s life begins to swerve off the tracks. His wife, Adele, who is a famous painter and the mother of his child Olive, left him years ago and traveled to Germany’s art scene. Caden is driving his current marriage to an actress named Claire directly into the ground. The actor Caden has hired to play himself within the play is a little too perfect for the part is making it harder for Caden to revitalize his relationship with Hazel. Caden’s condition is one by one shutting down all of his autonomic functions. Years go by and Caden is concealing himself deeper into this magnum opus. The line between the world of his play and what is reality soon becomes a little blurry. The rehearsal for the play will go on for decades making it unclear if the production will ever launch.
Throughout the play She Kills Monsters, different feelings and opinions arose. Primarily, it was not appealing to my taste of genres, and I couldn’t care less about what appeared to be a nerdy play, additionally it made me feel puzzled. Secondly, the play was entertaining and humorous. Lastly, the role-playing of the characters in this world of fantasy was amusing and enlightening. Although the play’s genre was fantasy and adventure, I speculated that it illustrated important values that we should incorporate in our lives.
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
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.
The play is about a young woman, Catherine who had been taking care of her father during his last years of life. Anne Heche plays Catherine. Prior to this play, I have never seen Anne Heche in any acting performance. I have to say she did an outstanding job in her portrayal of Catherine. She did a fantastic job of immediately drawing you into Catherine’s world. She aptly portrays the characteristics of a girl who never got a chance to grow up and the slight madness of the genius she inherited from her father. One can easily feel sad for her because after all she gave up all her dreams to take care of her ailing father. Anne Heche plays Catherine so well that it easy for you to fall in love with Catherine and desire only good things for her.
When you first enter the theater, you are immediately in awe of the strongest aspect of this production: the set. The stage features a life-sized enchanted forest with “tress” as tall as the ceiling and a lit-up backdrop of a twilight sky. The tress would move around throughout the performance to make way for different scenes. In front of your very eyes, an enchanted forest would turn into the outside of a charming house with a lit porch and a well. The twilight sky would turn to a starlit sky and a soft spotlight simulating moonlight would compliment the faint sound of crickets. Suddenly the house and tress move around and you’re in a town with a little cart selling baguettes, or a lush dining room with Victorian wallpaper, a chandelier, and china displayed on the walls. The world shakes once again and now you’re in, inevitably, a ballroom. A white Victorian gate opens up to become the walls of the ballroom, and a white marble bridge and staircase appear for the outside of the castle. Adults and children alike were in awe of the craftsmanship and technology.
Besides the fact that I didn't like this play, the actors did do a pretty good job with their acting and memorization of their lines. Couple times Marisol hesitated with her lines but it wasn't too bad. I like the accents they were using. It wasn't to hard to understand what they were saying, but once again there were those times when their accents did effect a little on their pronunciations and my understanding on what they were saying. Overall, I don't think they were too believable with their characters. They didn't reach me.
Taymor’s use of color throughout this film works to develop Shakespeare’s characters and symbolizes the most important aspects of the play. Whether it be the inferiority of a character, purity, or vengeance, each color is representative of something major. Although Taymor’s film is simply her interpretation of the characters and the story, the colors that she uses in her adaptation allow the viewers to see a more clear image of the mood, tone, and characterization of the play. While Shakespeare does use some color in his play, Taymor takes the context of the writing and makes a more visual image of what is being said in order to further develop Shakespeare’s characters.
As one can see, Tennessee Williams used colours in several ways. The significance of colours reveals the real appearance of Blanche throughout the play. The colours have their own meanings. The significance of colours is a central theme in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire; the author uses colours to reflect states of mind, make further commentary on particular characters, and what sorts of things specific colours represent.
Forth are Lighting and color. In case of Lighting, this film uses High key light that makes this film look like natural light and feel warm. In the case of color, some scene of this film use warm color to express love and warmth to audience such as in the wedding scene or some scene use dark color to express about sad feeling such as funeral scene and in scene that Rosie knows her dad was died. I think in some scene if you watch it in HD, it’s very beautiful such as in scene that Rosie drinks a cup of coffee and thinks about the past in sunset time because Lighting and color of sunset time is very