First, let’s talk about the title itself “We Hold This Truth”. It’s a very powerful title, that explains that every human has right to speak and have equal freedom and opportunities. After, watching this play last night in Bradley Hall at Rutgers explains that people have an issue with the new presidency. I personally agree with new presidency because in past many incidences have happened. One of the incidences was, two Indian were speaking their native language were shot. However, I had a great time last night watching We Hold this Truth with Ivan. This play was very important and I prefer every student should watch this because the new presidency is affecting people in many ways. Such as economic, racial, color and jobs. The starting of the play was very interesting, the character of different race come and sit together to watch a news on TV. This was clever because they were trying to show backstory, show the audience have a better idea what will be the rest of the play is about. This also shows the theme of the play which is the darkness that …show more content…
Because sometimes music has meanings that help other to understand better. Likewise, the girl who came from Africa to achieve the American dreams like others, she had to face criticisms. Due to eating her culture food instead of American foods like burgers. In additions, this play passed the very strong message that every race should have equal opportunity, and there should be no controversy among the society. Overall, the quality of the play was excellent, I really enjoyed the music, somewhat comedy, and the message they were trying to share among the society. In the end of the play, the musical dance with the bear represent strong unity, even whatever their issues in their life. Therefore, one thing I learned from this awesome play was, even if one person stands up against the society, then the next one will follow
There are two main storylines in this play. One main event is about a Nuyorican man named Patrick who is very proud of his ethnicity. However, most people do not care about the specific details, so when he is applying for a $25,000 scholarship his ethnicity has to be categorized. The lack of racial concern Sarah and the scholarship committee express
He is known for employing dancers based solely on artistic talent and integrity, regardless of the colour of their skin. Long ago in that country, the blacks were discriminated by the whites. As the whites over-number the blacks, they find fault in them and assumed that they were dirty. Hence being unable to attend the same school or enter the same restaurant as the whites. Therefore, it was brave of him to have black dancers in the piece as at that period of time the whites despise the blacks.
The play” Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead” was an interesting look at bullying through the eyes of teenage peanuts characters. We all remember our innocent childhood friends that walked us through the experiences of life, introducing new ideas and everyday interactions. Well, those kids grew up and Charlie Brown and the crew now show us the reality of the teenage struggles in the 21st century. The interpretation was very insightful and the characters felt real, creating a connection with childhood friends and reminding us of the reasons we loved them.
Before reading this musical, I did not have good idea of what it was about. I thought it was a comedy in some ways, but I did not except it to be so dramatic. This musical touches on subjects that are very fragile. I did not expect the son to be a ghost, and to have died when he was younger, and he is a ghost in the musical. With the musical being so emotional, there is a lot of adult content.
Nonetheless, there were several instances throughout the play where I enjoyed being an audience member. The audience impacted my experienced because it was filled with a diverse group of people who not only laughed at different jokes throughout the play, but they were also accepting of scenes that touched personally for African-Americans, which showcased how that night people were respectful of hearing dialogue, culture, and heritage from another group of people’s perspective. The central part of the play I was able to engage with was the discussions of what it meant to be an African-American in a white society. The cultural connections of being from the ancestral history of an African but being of African-American descent were very obvious
The productions of this play were successful through stage design, lighting crewing, and acting. Those three aspects made the quality of the play stand out to me, as an audience member. The production of the set design of the play was a good effort. The set design for the play staging aims for the sweet spot between feeding adult nostalgia and satisfying a new generation of children.
I liked that Paula Vogel did not hold back and let all of the emotions of the play loose. I am anticipating that I will enjoy the play. I personally think I would like it more if the characters were portrayed by only people rather that people holding puppets, but they have too much symbolic meaning to be left out. I think the puppets are meant to resemble the fact that we really have no control over our own lives as children. The release of the real people from the puppets into adults symbolizes the freedom from their
The 2013 reboot of the Rogers and Hammerstein classic, Cinderella, has captured audiences with its beautiful costumes, classic score, and a revised book with a couple of twists. Their performance at the Tennessee Theatre went spectacularly well. Their amazing cast brought the timeless tale to life and left the audience in awe of the amazing spectacle. Cinderella begins by showing two characters, Cinderella, (Tatyana Lubov), the orphan who is enslaved to her cruel stepmother, and Prince Topher, (Hayden Stanes), who struggles to find a purpose for his life. While Topher has slain a thousand beasts and is the most desired man in the kingdom, he does not know who he is, and in hopes that he will discover this somehow, his royal advisor organizes
Our action define who we are, so it is essential that continue to be ourselves and fight for what we believe. Just like the play, Beneatha struggles finding her true background. Along the way she loses focus on what her true dreams are. She believes they may just be meaningless in the vicious circle of discrimination and segregation. Identity is something that everyone, white or black, should always keep intact.
I would focus on the cultural background of the characters and how it influences their experiences and struggles. As a Puerto Rican-American playwright, Quiara Alegría Hudes brings her cultural perspective to the play, which is reflected in the characters' language, customs, and traditions. As a director, I would emphasize these aspects through the use of music, costumes, and set design, creating a sense of authenticity and richness that is reflective of the characters' cultural
The famous play shows the audience the life it was like to live as a black female, and shows the struggles that the Young family faced being the first African American family to move into a white neighborhood. This play is considered a
As a civil rights activist, Stokely Carmichael once said, “We are told,” If you work hard, you’ll succeed”- but if that were true, black people would own the country. We are oppressed because we are black- not because we are ignorant, not because we are lazy, not because we are stupid, but because we are black!” This quote is still relevant even to this day, blacks are still considered a minority and they get treated differently simply because of the color of their skin. People continue to treat others by the color of their skin rather than their character. In Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun, the interaction between the themes of race and dreams demonstrates that your race can affect the dreams that you have and what you choose to do about it.
Hairspray is a musical which stars a good natured overweight teenage who helps integrate the races in a popular teen dance show, the Corny Collins Show, in segregated Baltimore. It focusses on racism and segregation in the 60’s, but has the underlying theme of equality for everyone in spite of their race, class, sexual orientation, gender or outward appearance. Tracy Turnblad, an overweight teenager, finally gets a spot on the “Corny Collins Show”, a teen dance show she has always dreamt of being on. She is disturbed when she finds out the “Negroes” are allowed to dance on the show occasionally. She fights for integration despite being bullied and mocked.
The play was very successful; the audience stayed engaged throughout the performance, laughing and crying with the characters. The play was fascinating with a strong story. The plot had a constant character development with a smooth flow. The story did a great job of showing the emotion downfall and eventual
Although each character feels tremendously real, with his/her own quirks, thoughts, needs, desires and fears, but because there are so many characters, there isn’t much depth to them aside from Darlene, and none of them are fully fleshed out or explored. The plot, which gets lost under the rich chaos of the characters, is pretty predictable and uninteresting. The audience gets whatever the characters say and do in their own little subplots, which is enough to make them real, but not enough to let the audience truly know them. It features many unconventional theatrical devices, such as overlapping dialogue and simultaneous scenes also. However the cast performed well in a professional manner and were well rehearsed.