Ghost Light is a play written and performed by Shawn Wright and directed by Thomas Morgan Jones. I attended the performance at Theater New Brunswick’s Open Space theater in Fredericton, New Brunswick on Friday November 25th 2016. The one-man show told the story of a boy native from Saint John, New Brunswick. That boy was in fact the actor himself, you were transported in his world through a heartfelt and authentic performance. The play as inspirational as it could be told the audience that it is important to be true to yourself. The story of his his own life was a real “tear jerker” as one could say. An interesting trip that involved not only himself but other characters that shaped his life, one in particular his own mother. Through her impersonations
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Every impersonation he did were very well crafted, the physical and vocal aspects of it were amazing as well. The amount of character building that must have taken to achieve the final product must have been immense. It was also very clear that since it was his own story that he kept it very close to his heart and every word, every sentence was though out and calculated. To be yourself in a performance can be really scary and take you off balance. In Mr. Wright’s case he admitted to the audience in the performance to how hard it was for him to write the script since it was his own story he was going to be projecting. The authenticity and truth to his words was probably what drew me into his story, it genuinely touched my heart that I was able to attend such an inspirational …show more content…
It was nice to hear the story of an actor from New Brunswick that made it into the business and was successful. It gives us hope that with hard work it is possible to succeed in this line of work. The story that was told is a story that I will keep close to my heart because I recognized myself in a few situations that he spoke about. It was a wave of so many emotions; happiness, sadness, just to name a few and it was amazing. I would recommend this play to a future audience if he were to do a second run of performances because it was pure and
Every impersonation he did were very well crafted, the physical and vocal aspects of it were amazing as well. The amount of character building that must have taken to achieve the final product must have been immense. It was also very clear that since it was his own story that he kept it very close to his heart and every word, every sentence was though out and calculated. To be yourself in a performance can be really scary and take you off balance. In Mr. Wright’s case he admitted to the audience in the performance to how hard it was for him to write the script since it was his own story he was going to be projecting. The authenticity and truth to his words was probably what drew me into his story, it genuinely touched my heart that I was able to attend such an inspirational …show more content…
It was nice to hear the story of an actor from New Brunswick that made it into the business and was successful. It gives us hope that with hard work it is possible to succeed in this line of work. The story that was told is a story that I will keep close to my heart because I recognized myself in a few situations that he spoke about. It was a wave of so many emotions; happiness, sadness, just to name a few and it was amazing. I would recommend this play to a future audience if he were to do a second run of performances because it was pure and