Ten minutes is about the shortest play I ever seen my life. But each of these ten minutes plays told a whole story from beginning to end. This production I attended was call the Festival of Ten on February 28, 2017 at the fine Arts Center Mainstage. The production consisted of ten plays, each play was about 10 minutes long and all told a unique story. One play I found interesting was “Player of The Week” written by Pete Mergel, directed by Dalton Pitts, and Gail Argetsinger designed the costumes. This play took place in a penthouse in San Francisco at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. “ Player of The Week” showed how losing a loved one can cause a huge impact on a person's life.
Pete Mergel did a great job on writing this play because he left the audience feeling sympathy towards the actors in the play. He knew what emotions he wanted each character to pursue. Jordan Caster who played Jesse “Jumpshot” Jordan expressed sorrow for the life he took away from an accident. Jordan sat down at the foot of the bed, His head was down as though he felt shameful. Jordan pulled up his right arm sleeve
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Dalton Pitts wanted the audience to know that people lives are affected who a life is taken. The actors Jordan Caster and Matt Zeh brought their characters to life by showing the pain they felt. Jordan showed grief as he sat in silence in remembrance of “ Samantha”. Matt wanted vengeance and expressed this feeling by his aggressive tone in voice as well as his violently attacking Jordan. The stage designer Dominique Smith also made the production successful the positioning of the the bed in the center and Desk with a telephone to the right or the stage gave the play a realistic hotel setting. The actors and the stage manager made a story come to live in the length of a ten minutes. “Player of The Week” left a message that we may lose loved one but everyone had there own ways of dealing with the
The theme of this play is centered around time; the value of the little time we have been given and how that time should be used to live for what is right and what truly matters.
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.
Counting By Sevens written by Holly Goldberg Sloan. The genre of Counting By 7’s is realistic fiction. Counting By Sevens is about a girl named Willow Chance, a twelve year old genius. She loves nature and medical conditions. She also loves counting by 7’s. One day, after her counseling session, she arrives home where there is two police officers. They tell Willow your parents are dead. Her friend’s mother decides to take her in temporally while they find a foster home.
Yesterday night I reviewed the play “The Miss Firecracker Contest” In Wilmington, North Carolina at Big Dawg Productions. The play started out as Carnell Scott, 24-year-old orphaned southern girl who lives in Brookhaven, Mississippi. She is tap dancing in her room with a purple leotard and some kitchen utensils used as creative batons practicing her routine for The Miss Firecracker Contest.
the play. It looks at the person he is and the person he becomes. It
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.
For years, the debate over who the most productive fantasy players were in a given era was fixated on the top-rated running backs. With a gradual change in play calling philosophies, that trend has shifted dramatically since 2010. Such a dramatic shift - that now getting a top tier wide receiver is a higher draft priority than stocking up on ball carriers. However, since 2010 a few NFL fantasy superstars have been consistently the best point producers.
play. We know that this play is going to be a tragic play right from
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.
This play shows that lying is wrong and will get you nowhere. At the end, lying will come back and haunt you. Also, lying will get you known as a liar. A liar who no one will believe at the end of the day. A liar that will be hard to be trusted by others. All of this is something that you want to avoid. Never lie and always tell the truth and you will end up feeling better about yourself. That is what I ended up getting from this ten minute play. Never lie because all those lies will be stored somewhere, maybe not recorded on tape like they were for the Person but stored somewhere like ones conscious. Lies will come back soon or later to come and bite you when you least expect it.
Andy goes back to school and talks to his basketball coach about how he feels about Rob's death and how his fiends and family feel about the accident. In addition, they discuss Andy's sentence because Andy keeps punishing himself for Rob's death. Everybody at school was crying during Rob's memorial service. Grief Counselors from downtown come to the school to try to get the kids to share their feelings.
The tragedy Seven Guitars by August Wilson captures the audience with a captivating tragedy with plenty of comedy. With the numerous themes referencing slavery, racism, and death this play keeps the audience intrigued. The amazing scenery by Fred Uebele was created without flaw and developed the play smoothly as well with the music in the play was executed at great times and held the play together through transitions into scenes. Additionally, the acting in the play was above any expectations I had. Characters were performed flawlessly and the actors really complimented their characters. I would recommend this play for anyone whether it was his or her first or last.
A Fable for Tomorrow by Carson How does the Author of the following extracts use language to convey
The major events in the play, all develop around the memories of Tom Wingfield. The character, who takes care of his mother and sister, due to his father who left them at a young age. The next major event is when Jim who was a potential suitor for Amanda, comes and eats dinner with the family. Later on in the dinner, Amanda learns that her suitor Jim has girlfriend.
The Nighthawks by Edward Hopper is considered two-dimensional art. Some examples of two dimensional art is paintings, drawings and photographs. This painting is considered two-dimensional art because it was painted on a flat canvas and can only be observed in terms of height and width. This piece is not considered three-dimensional because it does not occupy space or have mass. Although this painting does not occupy space, it does imitate three-dimensional space or depth.