Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall part two was directed by Rebecca Greene Udden and held at the Main Street Theater. It was performed at 8 o’clock on Friday, October 28, 2016. The playwright was Hilary Mantel. The play is a fictional portrait of King Henry VIII desire of divorcing and overthrowing the Roman Catholic Church in his country at the time in the 1500s. In part two of the play Anne Boleyn is officially the queen of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell are the King’s chief adviser and his right-hand man. Anne has failed the jobs of the queen by not birthing a boy into Henry VIII bloodline, and now the King is motivated into looking at Jane Seymour. Thomas Cromwell eventually realizes that his only chance of living is to fulfill the King every wish …show more content…
When Anne Boleyn was sitting on the chair since she is very sick, in order to express this Villegas often touched the side of her eye and also put her hand on her chest showing that is sick all over her body. Since she is very sick not able to argue with King Henry VIII advocate Thomas Cromwell, she just let him talk and talk. Showing her disagreement to the audience, Villegas constantly shake her head left and right in disbelief of what is being said by Cromwell. Villegas would often constantly fix her sweater and blanket, expressing she is unable to sit on a chair but is willingly do so in order to show respect to the messenger from the King in …show more content…
My jaw dropped when every time I see King Henry VIII in his red fur coat, it looked very expensive and most importantly matched his status as the King. But the one thing that really bothered me throughout the entire play was the shoes. Almost all of the actor wore the same Toms shoes, with the tag cut out. But, on King Henry VIII who is the king of a nation also wore the same shoes as the peasant that is responsible for taking care of the garden. This resulting in an out of sync in wardrobe connection to the role of the character. Also, the shoe tag on the side of all the shoes wore were cut out, except for King Henry VIII you can still see the shoe tag hanging on the left, it was very visible since the whole shoes are black but the tag was light blue. The female jewelry and dresses were very accurate to the role of their character. Except, for the Queen even though she was sick her servant wore cloth as if the servant was the Queen and the queen was the servant. The cloth looked very worn out as if she is homeless. Even the blanket used by the Queen when she was sitting wasn’t very well made and doesn’t express the Queen status within the play. Overall, the wardrobe was very beautiful with an exception here and there but worked beautifully.
Overall the whole play was good, not great. I was more impressed with how well they were able to bring a bit more comedic side on the whole play of Wolf Hall. There could have been a brought a bit more effort
Their acting chops were very impressive whether it was comedic, emotional, or just stunning overall. Yet, on the other hand, some minor characters weren’t as well heard as others. I feel as the play could be better if some of the minor characters had projected their voice more, allowing their character to be known. However, although some voices were much stronger than others, all actors were full of talent, capable of dealing with script’s requirements, and did a good job
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...
The story of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, has been elusive to historians since her death in 1536 at the hands of her husband. This, in part, can be attributed to the destruction of almost everything she touched soon after her execution. On orders of the king, the castles that were once her home had all memory stripped of her. Portraits were destroyed, letters disappeared, their symbol of the H and A intertwined had the A ripped away. The remnants of her time on the throne are pieces of history that were overlooked in the workers haste to strip the castles in preparation for Jane Seymour to become queen. There are few hints left of what really happened during Anne’s life and how important she was during her reign which has created the widespread infatuation with Anne and who she really was. Why is Anne’s life of such interest to us then? The reasons are many and include the desire to know her role in the English reformation, being the first queen of England to ever be executed, and the impact it had on her daughter and the later Queen Elizabeth I.
...f the audience enjoyed the cow the most and how the characters movements were amusing and different. For example like the wolf, how the audience could tell what he was thinking just by his gestures and movements. I thought the play over all was ironic and interesting. The way the audience reacted with the characters and Into the Woods itself, they agreed with my opinions.
In Wolf Hall, Mantel alludes to other forms of history in order to demonstrate the progressiveness of time and how every series of events influences the next. By referencing specific examples, it becomes clear to the reader that everything that is being detailed before them, regarding Henry’s desire to divorce Katherine and marry Anne with Cromwell’s intent to make it so, is as a result of past actions, and the actions of Cromwell, the Cardinal and Thomas More alike will, and did, go on to affect the future of England.
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.
In the 15th century, King Henry VII became interested in a young lady named Anne Boleyn, despite being married to Katherine of Aragon. After Henry because the head of the church, he made his marriage to Katherine nonexistent by annulment and married the soon to be Queen Anne Boleyn. Anne Boleyn wasn’t the most favorable queen, since Katherine was the commoner’s all-time favorite. King Henry VIII was attracted to people who made it hard to get with. Anne gave King Henry many ultimatums to go through to finally get married to her.
“Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.” by Arthur Miller. All great works provide a way to reach in and grab the audience through the reoccurring themes like, greed, jealousy, reputation and hypocrisy. Arthur Miller had one of those great works and it was called “The Crucible”. The play was based off of the witch trials that happened in Salem in the year of 1962. Some of the characters were actual characters involved in the witch trials. Arthur Miller wrote this play during the time of the “Red Scare”. Miller wrote The Crucible because he wanted to turn the The Salem Witch Trials into
Overall, I enjoyed this play. Even with the dull ending, I found it to be entertaining and a good use of my time. The cast was great and they made good use of a decent
... their lines as well as their actions and all spoke clearly. They all used great emotion, though Victor won by far as I also mentioned, and even used fantastic body language in order to give more meaning and feeling to their words and actions. I would rank this play nine and a half out of ten stars because though it was pretty wonderful, there were a few things left unsaid. All the actors and actresses were spectacular in everything they did, though a few minor changes to the script would have made it slightly easier to understand. For the most part, the characters made sense and the events that followed made even more sense. All in all, Frankenstein was a wonderful play that I had the honor of seeing before it was gone forever. I look forward to more future plays by the Drama Club in hopes that they are all as good, or better, than their production of Frankenstein.
Overall there was a strong script with excellent actors. The performance was very funny. There was a well designed set and costumes. The performance I saw influenced my opinions on theatre in general, in a positive way. I will definitely consider using theatre for my future entertainment(closing paragraphs are hard).
the play was good. The first act was a little slow and tedious but the
Henry V has always been one of William Shakespeare’s more popular plays, in part because of the different ways that the main character can be presented. The play is essentially a treatise on what it means to be a great leader, yet the definition of just what that entails changes over time. The way the play is presented and how Henry is characterized and portrayed has also changed over time. Nowhere are these changes more visibly present than in the three best known adaptations of the play, Laurence Olivier’s 1944 film Henry V, Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 film Henry V, and the 2012 version of Henry V that was featured as the final part of the BBC miniseries known as The Hollow Crown, with the Henry V episode being directed by theatre director Thea Sharrock. While each version tells the same story and does not detract too much from the original text, there are nevertheless enough differences in the way the play is presented and how Henry is portrayed that it is easy enough to see that each adaptation is a product of its time.
Have you ever wondered what people in the Elizabethan Era wore? Fashion was just as important in those days as it is to some people today. What people were wearing mattered to others, and even the government. During the Elizabethan Era clothing, accessories, and cosmetics were all a part of daily life.
FASHION is a play that permeates throughout the centuries. Its themes about fashion and our treatment of it speak strongly to each subsequent generation in America. What is important to us? What matters most to us? How do we want others to see us? How do we want others to accept us? It would be just as easy to produce the play contemporarily today with just a few adjustments. The audience would certainly understand it, and many would see themselves within it.