Personal Narrative: My Experience With The Timbers Army

Never judge a book by it’s cover! Maybe due to reverse phycology and my stubborn attitude I’ve always been awful towards giving new opportunities a chance. Surprisingly I did not learn my first time from the amazing experience with he Timbers Army, instead I decided to judge this new trip based on the opinion of others. My mistake once again, though this new trip was a completely different type of experience I still had many added complications and my already made “ready to go” expectation of the play. From the judgment made by my friends who already had seen it. Then once again I was fooled by my own tiny veil of intuition. Our “play” weekend was a very interesting experience. First of all our class was one of the later classes to see …show more content…
I asked my classmates while waiting at the station if they had an idea of the purpose of the play. Yet no one had no clue what the theme was. Still waiting confused at the station we decided that it was probably a good idea to buy tickets for the MAX, because my group ran a little late. Jokingly we bought the youth tickets and someone made a comment that I would be able to pass. I felt no remorse buying one since I do have the height of a 11 year old. After loading onto the MAX and sitting in my seat I tried to get comfortable because my never ending headache was still pounding the right side of my face. Closing my eyes I tried t sleep, thinking about what the play meant. But the pounding just kept interrupting my thoughts, it was extremely frustrating. That day all I wanted to do was wake up late, eat a nice brunch, watch Netflix, and go back to sleep. Opening my eyes I looked at my youth and remembered how much it used to bother me when people called me “small”. Then suddenly I realized the importance of the …show more content…
In The Understudy, all characters are like any normal human being, thrown into a difficult situation where they have to deal with each other. Three completely different types of people, who are all facing different problems, including complications with in themselves. Among the three characters there was also Laura who was unresponsive and incorporating. Laura is the most interesting character, Roxanne always made it a point to include Laura in the play, even stopping to “search” for her. I thought this the most interesting feature to the play because Laura is a mystery and we never see her in person. But she changes the setting of the play and because of this the characters are forced to cooperate with whatever Laura throws at them. Honestly I feel that Laura represents a slight God figure, or life in general. The characters consistently ask for Laura to do what they want, but she doesn't listen and picks her own settings and lighting. From this Roxanne, Harry, and Jack have to adjust. At first all three of them can not collaborate with each other or Laura’s “mistakes”. Not until towards the end of the play when they begin to put there judgements of each other and their own needs aside do all three characters begin to agree with one another. Jack’s opinion of Harry changes once he realizes that Harry is correct about Kafka and his grip on the