Wit Play Summary

An important trait to life that many people have is intelligence. It is an exceptionally significant feature that people use in life for either good or bad. Intelligence can be positive, bringing bigger paychecks, fame, and power. These positive aspects of intelligence sound good, but such shrewdness has its disadvantages. Some negative aspects of intellect are depression, difficulty making friends, and the lowering of self-esteem. Living in a society where money can give people great pleasures, many believe intelligence is great trait. When individuals become highly intelligent, there can be times when they start to realize the disadvantages and begin regretting the way they lived their lives.

The lighting of the stage while they are in their home would be a muted warm light. This is because the family use to be seen as happy to the public. They use to hide behind this fasade that they were happy. After the “shooting” they are no longer seen as this happy family. They are seen as this sick dysfunctional family. That is why the warm light is muted, because they are no longer a “functional” family. The lighting outside the home would be bright and happy to contrast the dark feelings coming from the family. I would have contrasting color schemes depending on the scenes. If it were a scene in the house I would have drab colors to correlate with the mood of the family. While scenes anywhere other than the home, I would try to incorporate as many bright colors as possible to make the family seem even more depressed while walking though a happy world. Overall I would want to pick colors and lights that would make a more depressing

From ‘Literature and Spirituality” by Yaw Adu-Gyamfi and Marl Ray Schmidt, we find the play “Everyman”. “Everyman” is a 15th century play written in medieval times by an unknown author. The story “Everyman” is a play about morality. Morality plays were also commonly referred to as “Elckerlijc” which are attributed to Peter van Diest, a medical writer from the Low Countries. Both Dutch and English historians have argued for decades over whether the English play “Everyman” was based on “Elckerlijc” (or vice versa). The most convincing evidence that “Elckerlijc” was the original was provided by the English historian E.R. Tigg, who showed how many rhymes and literal translations were copied from the Dutch-language play into the English “Everyman”.

Ken Gargaro used a universal set. This one set was used for every scene of the musical, other pieces of furniture were added and removed to portray other scenes and settings throughout the play. This is something that works well for theater companies who are on a budget for a set, it allows the audience to understand where the scene is taking place without spending crazy amounts of money. Lighting during the show was done perfectly, it was easy to understand who was the main focus of each scene. On the night I attended the show sound was an issue. The mics were loud for some, and for others, it was so hard to understand what they were singing. This made it harder to understand what was taking place sometimes. Sound and lighting are things that can make or break a production. If the lighting and sound are not perfect the audience may not get out of the scene what was intended for them to get. This can leave an audience confused and uninterested.

CULTURAL OBSERVATION 2For my cultural observation I went to La Tolteca, a Mexican restaurant located in Bel Air. Everyone that works there are from different parts of Central America such as El Salvador, Guatamala, and Hondura. When I first arrived I just observed the customers and the employees, every single person in the restaurant looked so happy with a smile on their face. All the employees are very close, you can tell that most of them are related or have grown up together by how they act and care for one another. The restaurant was very festive and welcoming with loud Spanish music playing and everyone having conversations. The tables, chairs, and walls are painted with bright colors and beautiful designsand there are a lot of different

Regarded as arguably the greatest mind in literature, William Shakespeare spent much of his 52 years writing. Not only is he remembered as a master wordsmith, he also wrote as if he was running out of time. On top of writing poetry and making time for other pursuits, Shakespeare somehow managed to produce nearly forty plays in a span of 23 years. As if that is not enough, Shakespeare also reshaped the English language more to his liking, by creating nearly 1700 new words. A master of the theatre, Shakespeare did more than simply create plays, but truly captured the essence of the theatre. Whether it was a tragedy, history, or even a comedy, Shakespeare was able to incorporate theatrical elements within his plays. One of his greatest elements

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

Although the actresses presented their characters in a well-acted fashion, I was not able to connect with the characters until midway through the play. In one scene two of the characters are in a car having a heart-to-heart. It was the moment where the character of Jamie gives a very passionate and raw expression of her life that I was first able to connect with the story. The actress presented this scene in such a subdued yet passionate manner that it truly felt as if it had been an issue she had been dealing with for years. I was content that I had finally connected with the characters through this small scene of drama, but, just like real life, the moment of drama did not last and I was once again disconnected from the characters. Some of the reason I felt so disconnected from the characters was due to the fact that they were portraying mothers and I did not feel the sense of honest motherhood from these actresses. There was a strong familiar bond exuded by the characters to the children they continually brought up, but it felt more like the love of an older sister than that of a mother. Once again, I did not care for the characters as mothers until much later in the play when the character of Allison finally breaks down in a very real moment

The dramatic play ‘This I Where We Live’, written by Vivienne Walsh and directed by Jon Halpin, focusses on two main characters; Chloe, played by Matilda Bailey, and Chris, played by Jimmy Smith. Chloe is new in town, moving with her mother into Bill’s home. Bill is her mother’s new, abusive boyfriend. Chloe is in her final year of school and is worried whether she’ll fit in. Chloe meets Chris, the son of her teacher, and finds Chris has his life already mapped out. They become close after finding out their similarities. Home life is hard for Chloe, with her mother and Bill fighting all of the time. Chris builds up the confidence to tell Chloe he loves her, but Chloe is unable to let her guard down, and refuses Chris’s affection. Chloe then

The set lacked modern technology, which is perfect for the 1890’s. The female characters costumes didn’t show much to any skin throughout the play. This helped portray the celibate lifestyle that was forced upon the women of this time. I also liked the way that the adults walked. It was a very oldschool, stuck-up, know it all style of walk.

The Wellington ASB centre has distinctive and outstanding structural system. The structural system not only contributes to the aesthetics, but also the safety for the built environment. The safety has been attributed to the large trusses visible on the interior roof. The large trusses provide for the core resistance of the gravitational loads. These gravitational loads are the components for support such as the aluminum roof or other loads that help to support the roof. On the other hand, live loads like the maintenance workers who are moving. The trusses support the load of the roof and provide the overall stability to the ASB, helping from the likes of imposed loads or environmental loads such as the impact, strong

I did enjoy the play, it had a good backstory to it and the actors did a well job of portraying their characters. I was pretty amazed how the actors could portray more than one character it made the play more interesting because you could see the differences the actors put into each character. Each character had their own voice, actions, and personality.

“Fefu and her friends” is a strange yet an encompassing playwright written by Maria Irenes Fornes who sets this play during spring 1935 in New England when feminism wasn’t coming into existence and the lives of women were much more restricted in comparison to our modern day world. The audience observes the lives of eight different women who engage with each other in one environment to rehearse for a theatre education project for charity. Fornes purposely sets the setting of the play at Fefu’s house in order to stress upon the point she wanted to make; women can get along under one roof even if they are restricted to the inside world. She also does this in order to highlight the character and personality of Fefu; her manly approach to the world around her. Many readers conclude that this play is written to highlight the eight distinct personalities and characters Fornes establishes, however, it is not about that. It is about how these eight women come to compromise with their own identities along with coming to terms of negotiation in a patriarchal society in this historical play, which is separated from our modern times. Fornes touches upon the matters of marriage, relationships, love and sexuality and most importantly the sisterhood of women. She stresses upon these topics as being important to women in general rather than on

This paper will focus on metatheatre and metadrama and their effects on theatre, and more specifically, Anne Washburn’s 10 Out of 12. Metatheatre and Metadrama are two names for a specific genre of theatre coined by Lionel Abel in 1963 (Rosenmeyer 87) that have been used for almost as long as theatre has been around—most famously used by Shakespeare (Lipmann 232). Among scholars, there have been debates on the exact definition of the term and its merits of application, but generally speaking, it refers to theatre that somehow references its own theatricality. Some scholars refer to metatheatricality as a distraction or as being too busy (Rosenmeyer 87) whereas others refer to it as a tribute to the history of theatre (Stephenson

The Tech Theatre students did a great job on the set. It was very functional and clearly showed the scenes. The layering of the boards and the easy exits for the witches and other characters made the show very appealing. The use of the plants and colors made it look very realistic,