The stories that we read in class shared both numerous similarities and differences with the plays that we saw at ISU. Personally I feel that the two had more contrasting components. But the plays certainly gave the audience a clear idea of what play they were acting out, what they were doing, and why each little piece of the play was important. The plays had a different tone than the stories. The plays seemed to make things feel more extreme, they made the suspense greater and the joy of the characters even more apparent. When there were dark and mysterious moments the actors moved much more dramatically than they had before. Yet sometimes they were far to dramatic, and made things feel unreal; or sometimes even awkward. Unfortunately the
