Play Critique Essay

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As a person who has only attened two other plays in their life, people might call me “unqualified” to review a play; these people are wrong. My qualifications for play review come solely from an “excess” amount of musicals listened to, pirated videos, and animatics watched on youtube. Seeing Guys and Dolls live was a great experience as a whole, and I enjoyed myself throughly. Understandably there were a few things that I disagreed with, so I will nitpick and pretend that my qualifications alone make me justified to critique a play that no doubt took alot of effort, stress, and love to make.
The charecters were my second most faveourire pert of the play. Seeing the people in the background interact with each other brought (what I thought) another dimension withing the play’s performance. Hubert Jackoby wrote: “When a play is more than just the front stage, that is true dimensional theatere.” They mirrored real life, and their reactions were very fun to watch. One of my faveourite background charcters was the nosy newspaper man.
I understand that with many people in a play it’s hard to make all of the voices clear, but when some of the actors were talking I couldn’t make out what they were trying to say. The quiet voices made it harder to follow the smaller plot line of the play. “I find that a rising problem in today’s dramas is that actors
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From the first scene when you questioned it’s existance, to the last scene when you were emotionally invetsted in it’s beautiful cameo performance. Despite it’s doubters, (Carrie’s husband) The Manhole perservered and put on what I believe to be the performance of it’s life. Rave reviews from sourses such as: A random guy in the Caf, My confused Snapchat followers, Your class, Myself, The drunk girl last night, Some guy that has a crush on me but thinks I don’t know, My Archeology professor, and An angary sorority

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