Personal Narrative: Madea Gets A Job

When I was younger and still living in New Jersey, my mom use to go buy these plays and we would watch them together. I use to be so in live with writing because I was in this club at school where we actually got to meet directors, actors and play writers. So we would write plays and have them preformed in front of the whole school. So when I saw Tyler Perry’s work I knew from then one I wanted to do it because it looked so fun and exciting. He was just so inspiring to me that I looked up to him since day one. A few years ago when he came to Atlanta with his play Madea Gets A Job, my mom surprised me, my grandmother and cousin with tickets to go see it. When we went I thought that it was better to see it in person than on DVD because it seemed …show more content…
She was first introduced in the play I Can Do Bad All By Myself and ever since than she has been a hit. The honest, gun-toting grandmother, name game from the African American contraction of “Mother Dear”, was played by Perry his self. After her first appearance she was recurring in a number of his later plays (Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2001), Madea’s Family Reunion (2002), Madea’s Class Reunion (2003), Madea Goes to Jail (2005), Madea’s Big Happy Family (2010) and A Madea Christmas (2001)) In 2001 it earned Perry a Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production and it was a first that you heard of an urban theater to get this. It seems that Madea became more famous than Tyler Perry. "I have to talk so high for two hours and the costume is really, really, really hot. I 'm soaking wet under there," Perry bemoans to JET, smiling as he describes the overweight body suit with large, sagging breasts that helps transform him into Black America 's favorite theater grandmother. "I don 't like putting on makeup every day, and the wig aggravates me. It used to take hours for me to get ready. Now I can be ready in 20