In the play, Gloria, I will be playing as Dean, a white man who is in his late twenties. In the scene I am sitting near the window with Lok Yiu inside an empty Starbucks located in the West Midtown of Manhattan. The scene takes place in the winter of 2011, as for the time, it is currently afternoon. Lok Yiu and I are finally meeting up after eight months after the Gloria incident that occurred at our workplace. Now after the incident, Lok Yiu is trying to write about what happened at the workplace even though she was not involved. So I have drafted a non-disclosure agreement that I want Lok Yiu to sign so she does not write about my experience. That being said, my objective is to get Lok Yiu to sign the agreement I drafted up. It is important …show more content…
He worked alongside with Kendra, Ani, Gloria and an internee named Miles. One day, Dean arrived to work hungover from Gloria’s housewarming party that she hosted last night. He was the only one from her coworkers who actually attended that night since everyone else thinks she’s a maniac. The rest of the day went as normal, but Gloria who arrived to work late was acting a bit strange. Little did they know that she was bearing a weapon which she ended up using. Killing Miles, Ani and other workers in the building. Gloria then went onto shooting herself in the head, sparing Dean’s life because he was always nice to Gloria. As for Kendra, she survived since she was outside at Starbucks. Now eight months later, Kendra and Dean decide to meet up at Starbuck to talk about the so called Gloria incident and their current aspirations. Dean overheard that Kendra was going to write about him in a book she is planning to write based off the incident. So Dean drafted up a non-disclosure agreement to limit what Kendra can write about him. Dean believes that she does not have the right to write about it because she was not inside the building at the time. But Kendra refuses, and tries explain to Dean that she can write whatever she wants. The overall play has a dark and betrayal feel to it. The dark comes from the beginning of the play where mayhem takes place at the workplace because of hate between
R/s Gloria is a drunk and alcoholic and is legally blind. R/s Gloria has 15-year-old daughter and she barely goes to school. R/s there is a possibility the 15-year-old is prostituting. R/s Gloria’s other daughter lives in the home with her 4-year-old and arm-baby. R/s Gloria’s daughter is not taking care of her children because she leaves the children with Gloria and a neighbor name Fred.
THE 4-HOUR ZONE presents as an intriguing time-travel psychological, conspiracy thriller. The concept of a woman falsely accused of murder, who then travels back in time to clear her name, is a solid premise. The protagonist is put into a life and death situation with high stakes. The premise has good potential to create a tense thriller.
Plautus was a play writer and an actor born in Italy in 254 BCE and died 184 BCE, he was a great Roman comic dramatist whose work was sparsely adapted from Greek plays; he began his carrier as an actor. Pseudolus is one of the works of Plautus which was first shown in 191 BCE at the megalesian festival. Pseudolus is play about a soldier who put down 60 pounds of token to come back later to pay the balance of 20 pounds for a girl whose pimp wanted 80pounds for her to be sold. She sends a letter to her lover (Calidorus) who is heartbroken and confused because he can’t afford to watch her leave and also couldn’t afford to buy her from the pimp.
She gives us a sense of where females belong during this tumultuous period; she, like Robert, has no place to go but to engage in the spectacle, the dance marathon. Its outcome is one for which she longs: death. Her bleak outlook serves to convey that Los ANgeles is an illusion, a place housing no hope for extras like her during the Great Depression. For example, Gloria gives up on her dream of becoming a star in Hollywood's film industry, helplessly stating, "The hell with pictures. I wish I was dead."
The short story “Good People”, by David Foster Wallace was published in February of 2007. The story battles with a young unmarried Christian couple who is faced with an unwanted pregnancy. At the heart of the story is a compelling depiction of decision making when neither religion nor love is abiding. Throughout the story, the characters struggle between division and union. David Foster Wallace achieves this effect through his use of setting, plot, and character.
Contrasting and Comparing You may think the play and movie of “A Christmas Carol” are the same. Well you are quite mistaken. In the Play and Movie they are very different from each other. From watching the movie and reading the play the Climax, the Conflict, and the resolution are different from each other.
“Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite—it is a passionate exercise ” (Shanley). John Patrick Shanley wrote the play Doubt, which takes place in a Catholic Church and school in Bronx, New York during1964. In Doubt, the school’s strict and heinous principal, Sister Aloysius is convinced that the priest, Father Flynn, is expressing inappropriate behavior towards Donald Muller, who is the school’s first black student. To help aid Sister Aloysius in finding proof about the conviction and keeping a close eye out for students, the naïve teacher, Sister James, is indecisive on whom to believe in this situation, but she still provides insight to both Sister Aloysius and Father Flynn. As the situation thickens, Sister Aloysius is using all of her power
Lynn Nottage’s play By The Way, Meet Vera Stark is an interesting play that deals with race during 1933 Hollywood. The two main characters Vera Stark and Gloria Mitchell show how black and white actresses were treated back then. Vera is African American and in the 1930’s the roles for her were degrading such as playing maids or slaves. Meanwhile Gloria, a “white” actress, gets the leading roles for movies. These two women show us how Hollywood treated black and white passing actresses.
Despite the title of the book, “My Antonia” is very much centered on Jim Burden. The story begins with an outlook on Jim’s adult life, and we are then catapulted into his Nebraskan childhood. As the book progresses, we witness the mental and emotional development of Jim as he has new experiences and meets numerous people. The book then concludes with Jim again as an adult. As a reader, I have observed him complete a cycle (going from point a, to point b and arriving at point a again).
Play: Hansel and Gretel Scene 1 Narrator:( On a sunny day in the Woody Forest Hansel and Gretel are on their Dad’s house. Their dad will soon leave to the forest and find wood to get what his kids want. His dad talks before exiting.) Hensel: Dad I want more food.
The Flick, by Annie Baker, was production at Whitcomb Lee Conservatory, directed by Joel Egger. The name of the playwright is “Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, commissioned and produced the Word Premiers of “The Flick”. This play is about three employees, Sam, Rose and the new employee Avery, who are underpaid and work in a movie theater. In the beginning of the play, Sam is training Avery then Avery finds out about the dinner money and he did not want any part in that. The purpose of The Flick is to tell a story about how movie theaters were before they became more modern.
I feel so bad about what we did to Melody. I think we were all so excited about the competition we just, forgot. I don 't think she would have made it in time for the plane anyway. It 's not just my fault though, no one else called her either, I just feel so guilty, I hope one day Melody forgives me. I 'm starting to doubt how well we will actually do in the competition, Melody was our best player.
Throughout this theater project I have learned very much. My group and I researched all sorts of things in order to get factual information about the time period that the play, Grease, took place in. We all had to research the time period of the late 1950’s to find inspiration for all parts of the play. I, personally, focused more on costumes in this project. I conducted research about what high school students wore in the late 1950’s.
Screen Gems Studios and Columbia Pictures released The Vow, on February 10, 2012. A romantic drama based on a true story, this movie captures the tender hearted love story of the perfect couple. The onscreen chemistry between Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum conveys a dreamy warmth that makes this painful journey all the more heartbreaking while also making the full-circle resolution all the more satisfying. Who doesn’t like a happily ever after in the end, especially after the long fight to achieve it?
Leland starts his narrative by flashing back to the scene of the crime, in which he depicts his interpretation of killing an intellectually disabled boy name Ryan Pollard, who just so happens to be his girlfriend Becky’s younger brother. Initiated by Leland’s teacher in the juvenile facility, Pearl Madison, asks Leland to keep a journal as a way of trying to understand his motives behind what is a seemingly senseless murder and provides the context of the entire movie. Although the idea of the journal was to partially to help Leland come to terms with his crime, a portion of it was to selfishly advance Pearl’s own personal achievement of becoming an accomplished writer - and he views Leland’s story as the ticket to his success. Additionally, numerous characters are presented throughout the movie, all of whom are in some way affected in the aftermath of the murder, essentially providing the background for possible explanations to be further evaluated. However, the movie never clearly