Personal Narrative: Futurity

Futurity I was shocked for a moment after I watched the show Futurity because I didn’t expect it as a musical show. My classmates who sat next me were also confused. In order to understand what the show is about, I found a brief summary from their website: “Two people try to imagine their way out of impossible circumstances in FUTURITY – an avant-Americana musical by indie band The Lisps. Julian is a Civil War soldier dreaming of a technological utopia. Ada is a mathematical genius thousands of miles away. Together, they’re going to invent a machine to end one of the darkest periods in our history. An electrifying concert-story featuring an army of thirteen musicians.” One of the reasons I was confused is because as an international student …show more content…
There was a big shelf that you can climb on it, which symbolized a rail road in Virginia. They performance with that pretty good. After remove the shelf, there was a big machine behind of it composed of many metal things. Such as bike, wheel gears, band was there as well. I may consider that piece of art as the “machine” that Julian Munro and Ada Lovelace tried to create. The machine brings peace. There are two points I didn’t get it. Before the intermission, one of the soldier suddenly got shot on the rail road, and then drop his instrument. That’s how it end up first part, which was very confusing. Another part is after the intermission, every soldier put their instruments down and take off their hats, walking to the big giant machine. Is that means they dead? Julia was the last soldier took off his hat and got shot. There was actually blood on the back paper. That made really well with his excellent …show more content…
Soldiers have to kill people even though they don’t want to, and even though they may dead at the end. Their body is not their body, but they have a hope for a peace of the world one day. It is hard for me to understand the most part of the music. However, I can’t deny that the music they sang pretty well. The band was in the front most of the time. Then the soldiers moved it back with the performance. So I think it was pretty smooth to remove the band in front of the audience. It didn’t need to turn off the lights and let audience wait for couple minutes to prepare for a new scene. Instead, they singing as a group, and meanwhile pushing and pulling the band stage down to the side. That time, I didn’t know the performance stage was bigger than I think that there was a bigger machine with the piano and drums on that. They shifted everything very natural and very carefully that make you believe this is the part of the show. They don’t need to hide anything from the