This drama is set in modern day in Connecticut. This plays plot is concentrated on the demise of the relationship between Beth and Tom. It begins off as you can imagine at dinner. Karen and Gabe who are happily married with two children invite their friend Beth and Tom over for dinner. However when the night arrives only Beth attends dinner.…
Tom Farrey, in chapter 4 of Game On: The All-American Race to Make Champions of our Children asserts that unstructured play can benefit children in long term athletic competition more than the methods of youth sports today. He argues that the parents of today’s society are pushing children into highly competitive athletics which aren’t even producing results, compared to other countries with different approaches. On page 86 he introduces the French Football Federation in Clairefontaine which is highly esteemed in producing professional soccer players for France. The Federation practices methods similar to the ideas manifested in Dr. Istvan Balyi’s research which finds that long term benefits reap from later exposure to competition in youth…
Every year, more than three million children are abused and these numbers only count for cases that have been reported in the United States (ChildHelp.org). Bastard Out of Carolina, written by Dorothy Allison, tells the story of young Bone as she learns to navigate her life after being sexually and physically abused by her stepfather, Glen Waddell. Bone is born into the Boatwright family to Anney Boatwright and an unknown father. Bone and her mothers’ future is indirectly affected by the words “illegitimate” that are stamped on her birth certificate. After failed attempts to try and legitimize Bone’s existence, Anney tried to find a good man to marry so she can lift this burden off of herself and marries Glen, a man from a well to do family…
The play is set in the year 1692 but wasn’t written by Arthur Miller until 1952. This play was written to show the similarities between the Salem Witch Trials and the Communist Trials of the mid 20th century. Reverend parris and reverend hale were the two ministers who helped in the prosecution of all the suspected witches…
This play, which is based in 1600’s Salem, shows readers what mass hysteria can do to a group of people. This play has many unique characters with many different ideas and values. Even though these characters all play different roles, there are three key figures who are clearly to blame for the chaos and mass hysteria…
Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone is a contemporary and modern twist on the classic boy meets girl story. Based on the real life experiences of his parents, Nguyen intertwines his comedic style with the tragic reality that refugees of war must face, and creates a story that allows the tragedy of the survivors of the Vietnam War to becomes accessible to a modern American audience. Director Jamie Castaneda and the American Conservatory Theatre brings this production to life in San Francisco, where a blend of technology, hip-hop, and an all-Asian cast crew brings justice to a story often untold. The play mainly follows two refugees who manage to find love despite their circumstances. However, beyond the tale of two unlikely lovers is a story about dealing…
For our gathering execution, our gathering has picked the play Biloxi Blues by the creator Neil Simon. Biloxi Blues was initially performed in theater in late 1984, and won various honor, some of which incorporate the Tony Award for Best Play and Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. The play is intended to be a parody identifying with power, additionally has some dim subjects to it, for example, bigotry and homophobia which are approaching over the generally entertaining play. The play is set in Biloxi, Mississippi in the 1940s.…
In the Salem witch trials 200 people were accused of witchcraft and twenty people were actually executed for it. The play that is the basis of the essay is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 during these Salem witch trials. One of the main characters that this play is centered around, John Proctor, a farmer in his middle thirties. As a morally ambiguous character in The Crucible, John Proctor had both honorable and disgraceful actions that contributed to the work as a whole. John Proctor has dealings in the play that could characterize him as an immoral man.…
Written by Sarah Ruhl, In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play is the comedy that follows Dr. Givings, Catherine, Sabrina, Mr. Daldry, Elizabeth, and Leo as they experiment with new technology in the name of medicine, specifically using the vibrator as therapy. Throughout the entire play, Sarah Ruhl highlights the intimacy of the characters and focuses specifically on their distinction between bodily functions and actual love. The main characters in In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play are Dr. Givings, Catherine Givings, Sabrina Daldry, Elizabeth, and Leo Irving. Dr. Givings is a man strongly influenced by and devoted to medicine.…
This young girl is quite insane with her deep love and passion toward an older man named John Proctor. They had an affair one time and now she is completely attached to him. However, John did not want anything more out of that. Throughout this play. it is shown that her love towards him is in fact dangerous.…
Twenty lives lost, and two hundred jailed were the result of the adults being oblivious to the lies of a group of girls. The play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller is set in Salem, Massachusetts in the year 1692. There was word of witchcraft, so the town called for an expert on witchcraft, Reverend Hale. When Reverend arrived in Salem and spoke with the girls, they had admitted to witchcraft. They accused many people, and despite their lies being rather transparent, he was too stubborn and naive to notice to be able to stop the whole mess spiraling out of control.…
Love can take you to new extremes. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Abigail William attempts to incriminate the wife of the man she loves. Her condemned lies induce the city of Salem, with their restrictive theocracy, in a cry of hysteria when witchery is threatened upon their society. Out of Abigail’s adolescent adoration of a forbidden love and a deliberate defense for her reputation, Abigail perpetrates irremediable sins, losing her morality within her society. Without looking at all the misdeeds Abigail has caused, she is just a teenage girl growing up.…
The Pillowman was an interesting play. It was one of the best theatrical performances I have experienced. Not only the design, costumes, acting but the story line. It made you think about the social experiment the parents performed on Katurian. It made me question why parents were evil in how they abused Michal and experimented on Katurian, was it for their own fun?…
The play centers on the murder of John Wright who died in his bed by strangulation. His wife Minnie has been charged with the crime. When the play begins, the County Attorney, the neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Hale, and the Sheriff and his wife have come to collect things to take to Minnie in jail. In addition, the men want to look around the murder scene upstairs clues. The men never stop to think why such a meek, small, birdlike woman would ever consider or possibly kill her husband.…
Throughout the play, there is a steady increase of lies as the story advances. The opening depicts a small village in Massachusetts in the 1690s where the members of the community are living normal, Christian lives. However one young citizen,…