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Into The Woods Play Analysis

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On Thursday, November 5th, I went to go see the musical Into the Woods put on by the Shawnee Mission Northwest theatre department. Into the Woods is a play about several characters from different fairy tales that interact with each other throughout the plot. Some of the characters include: Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Jack(from Jack and the Beanstalk), the witch, and the baker and his wife(these two characters do not actually belong to a fairy tale, but have a major role in the plot). There are many other characters from different fairy tales as well, but these are some of the characters that I found most important. The plot mainly revolves around the baker and his wife. There was a curse bestowed on the baker’s family by their neighbor, …show more content…

I truly thought that this performance was incredible. My grandpa(he went and watched the musical with me) thought the performance was too good to be a high school play. I would’ve agreed with him except I already knew how talented our performers are. Besides the amazing talent, another incredible thing stood out to me. The set was absolutely amazing. I was shocked to see how great it was when I walked into the theater. I have never seen such an amazing set put together by youth. It was incredible. The crew also did a phenomenal job. Normally, when I attend a performance put together by a school there are many issues that happen during the play. Things like the microphone volume is either too loud or too quiet, the music doesn’t start/end when it is supposed to, or set changes didn’t happen in time. But, during Into the Woods everything went smoothly. The crew did an amazing job! It was very fun for me to watch my friends perform and to see how wonderfully executed the play was. It was also really nice to see the play with my grandpa. My grandpa doesn’t live near here so it is rare that I get to spend time with him. It was really nice to have some one-on-one time. My grandpa was very pleased with the performance as well. He thought it was incredible how good the performance was. It was really nice to see him smile and for us to have something to talk about on the ride

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