I had the chance to watch my first play in Bowling Green for my English 200 class at the Public Theatre of Kentucky or also known as the Phoenix Theater during April 30, Thursday which showed “The Member of the Wedding” by Carson McCullers. I don’t usually go to plays often then I should, but I enjoyed the play and hearing the glees and giggles of the coward they seemed to enjoy it as well. Set in a modern America around the time after the atom bomb, we follow the life of a tomboyish girl who seeks to find her role in life and her brother’s wedding. The point that can be taken from this play more than anything is that whatever happens in life, either it be individual problems that happens though out the day or even life defining choices that destroys the destinies of men, life will look with pity than move on, as life always does.
The first act begins with Frankie Addams in the kitchen on a lonely day of summer with her Berenice Brown and John Henry West. Jarvis, her brother, is visiting for a short time to welcome his fiancée, Janice. This couple plans on getting married in the next following week. Frankie’s best friend left before summer and all the other girls are acting high and mighty because they are thirteen and Frankie is still twelve. They won’t allow her to join their clubs or games, mainly because she’s rude. Frankie has spent most of her summer playing cards and having idle talk with Berenice Brown and John Henry. While her father is away at his job, Frankie feels distressed with having the feeling of not belonging nowhere, but as soon as she sees her brother and his fiancée, she is enchanted by their love and becomes a member of the wedding. This part of the play seemed rush to move along.
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...eft confused and quickly turned tail behind the stage. Another moment was also during the end when Berenice was humming and while it was fading black quickly turned bright and back to dark quickly, ruined that scene completely. Lastly, the props John Henry got to play with while Frankie and Berenice were talking delighted me so.
The Kentucky Public Theater did swell job of making this play wonderful. Other than a few simple errors in either casting or management, I was delighted to have gone to it. For the actors who turned these characters words into life and give those meaning is a job only a few can master. For what this play taught more than anything else is the fact that life will go on regardless of your actions, and the actions you use to make will affect those around, so, don’t fuse over such things and enjoy the idle time you have and hope for more to come.
Not knowing what this play was about, I went to go see it Wednesday after noon at Holyoke Community College in the Leslie Phillips Theater. I had many mixed emotions about this play. I thought some parts were very funny, but others were a little uncomfortable because of some racia...
In conclusion I think that the stage directions and dramatic irony are significant to the play, and without them there would be no need for a lot of the events that happen in the play.
Every time the family comes to a confrontation someone retreats to the past and reflects on life as it was back then, not dealing with life as it is for them today. Tom, assuming the macho role of the man of the house, babies and shelters Laura from the outside world. His mother reminds him that he is to feel a responsibility for his sister. He carries this burden throughout the play. His mother knows if it were not for his sisters needs he would have been long gone. Laura must pickup on some of this, she is so sensitive she must sense Toms feeling of being trapped. Tom dreams of going away to learn of the world, Laura is aware of this and she is frightened of what may become of them if he were to leave.
It taught me a lot like how a family should be and how a family should not be. The play makes you think wow this can really relate to me as a high school student and athlete. Linda needs to learn to speak her mind no matter what her husband says because people have rights and she should be able to talk about what she thinks is going on with her family. “When Linda converses with her husband it’s almost as if se walking on eggshells and almost that she is taking to a frail eggshell that is her husband’s mental state.” (Source 2). Nothing Linda says to try to help her husband will work because she is someone who gets under her skin and makes it a lot worse to willy but too anyone else she is doing anything in her power to help him much like and other wife would do for their husband. A couple weeks after willy dies after all that the family has been through with him it’s a very sad dad but the family is very mad at him still so it is a very hard position to be in and I know I would never want to be to in the position that this family is in. willy was a very mean and angry person to his family and had a lot of stress going on in his life this is why we need to realize that all he wanted was to make his family happy but it was just something he could not do so he gave up and just took all of his anger out on
The play is set in the 1920s when women started to receive clerical jobs and were expected to complete certain milestones in life. For example, in the scene labeled “at home” young woman – the main character – tells her mom that she is going to get married, because everybody does it, but then says she will not because she does not love Mr. Jones (Machinal). Ultimately her choice was to not get married, but in the end she does because her mom needs and wants her to get married for financial stability and the young woman feels that her destiny was to care for her mother. However, in the scene titled “prohibited”, the young woman starts deciding her destiny and chooses to cheat on her husband, Mr. Jones (Machinal). This is the moment when she realizes she can control her own destiny. That she does not have to be the happy housewife that society says her fate has to be. But there was still one problem, society still appeared to be in control of her destiny because she hasn’t decided on what her exact destiny would
...ly progressed from a way to tell stories about kings and gods to a way to tell stories about ordinary human beings. By moving our focus off of nobility, the language of plays became the language of every individual, and eventually, due to America’s “melting pot” culture, the language itself became individual. The unique language of American dramatic characters represents not only the diversity of the American people, but also the diversity of all human beings. These dramatically dissimilar differences were not typical of older plays when they were written, but now, they are what make American drama so valuable. Our acceptance and love for characters with different values than ours is representative of the love we can develop for those who are different from us. It represents the worldview that our current culture idealizes and strives to achieve: acceptance for all.
Now that the play, “Post-its (Notes on a Marriage),” could make the audience react to feel distanced and questionable of the actions of the characters, how can that relate to everyday life? traits of the play Post-its (Notes on a Marriage) through staging and conversation,
...the audience and parents that tragedy that could come to them. I think it is not only a lesson for teenagers, but a lesson for parents as well. Time, effort, and energy put into this play were definitely worthwhile, in my opinion. I believe all their practice, rehearsal, and hard work paid off.
My least favorite aspect of this play was the ending. The ending confused me and was anticlimactic. It was not funny and not entertaining at all.
In today’s society, the notion and belief of growing old, getting married, having kids, and a maintaining of a happy family, seems to be a common value among most people. In Kevin Brockmeier’s short story, “The Ceiling,” Brockmeier implies that marriage is not necessary in our society. In fact, Brockmeier criticizes the belief of marriage in his literary work. Brockmeier reveals that marriage usually leads to or ends in disaster, specifically, all marriages are doomed to fail from the start. Throughout the story, the male protagonist, the husband, becomes more and more separated from his wife. As the tension increases between the protagonist and his wife, Brockmeier symbolizes a failing marriage between the husband and wife as he depicts the ceiling in the sky closing upon the town in which they live, and eventually crushing the town entirely as a whole.
The novel, Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other (2011) written by Sherry Turkle, presents many controversial views, and demonstrating numerous examples of how technology is replacing complex pieces and relationships in our life. The book is slightly divided into two parts with the first focused on social robots and their relationships with people. The second half is much different, focusing on the online world and it’s presence in society. Overall, Turkle makes many personally agreeable and disagreeable points in the book that bring it together as a whole.
This paper is a critique of a production of The Last Night of Ballyhoo, a play written by Alfred Uhry, which was performed and produced by the Ball State University Theatre. Gilbert L. Bloom directed the production and was very successful with producing a truly entertaining, comedic play with an important message about the personal dilemmas that we as individuals with different beliefs and values must encounter in our daily lives.
The dramatic elements I talked about that really came out in this play were climax, focus, mood and tension. These elements together made this play, and made the script, without them there would be no play. Overall this play is about family, and following in the footsteps of others. Tom, who did not want to turn out like his father, became eviler than him. At the end of the play the audience starts to realize that he is haunted by his actions toward Laura. Likewise, you have to realize that there is not a there is not a final ending, the ending is toms regret.
The best improvement they could've made to this play would've been canceling it. I guess if I were the director, I would've tried to make it more entertaining, because it was really boring.
to the suicide of a girl called Eva Smith and how everyone in the play