Restroom Play Analysis

The play fresh acts had a lot of good acting within the show. Although they all stood behind music stands for the duration of the play, the actors were still able to perform the scenes well by emphasizing certain words and performing certain actions. It was also interesting to see these actors apply tactics to pursue their objectives. In fact, most if not all of the acting that was in this play could be seen by each actor pursuing an objective using certain tactics.
The first play, Restroom, was a great show. The acting the girl in the stall did was incredible. As someone who had suffered from an anxiety disorder for many years, I felt that her performance was very realistic. Even though she was behind a music stand for the whole play, everyone …show more content…
In the play a mother and her son argue whether or not he can go to a march for a Black person who was wrongfully killed. The mother says that her son should remain in the house and eat dinner and educate himself more on the subject of their history before marching for it as it is dangerous. However, the son believes that he is ready to march and he is prepared to die for the cause that he feels passionate about. You could see the mother pursuing ber objective of keeping her son to stay in the house by using lots of different tactics. She scolded him, shielded him, and pressed him in an attempt to keep him from going to the event. This could be seen by her saying that he didn’t share the same culture as her because he doesn’t know and he hasn’t experienced, by blocking the doorway so he couldn’t leave, and by pressing him on questions that he didn’t know the answer to. By doing actions such as these and more, she was able to effectively convince the audience that she was actually his …show more content…
Personally, I didn’t like this play too much as I felt that the script wasn’t as believable as it could be. For one thing, the end of the play I didn’t like how they left behind the physicist. The preschool teacher had mentioned that “there was nothing they could do for him,” however, the other girl, Quinn, was a psychologist whose job it is to understand how the brain works and she would have been able to help him. Also, I didn’t believe that in the two months that they lived together that it didn’t come up that he believed that it was his wife was Q. There must have been some conversation that they had where he would have said something that only applied to his wife and not Q. Also, how would Q know the story about his wife if he believed that it was his wife the whole time? Anyways, the actors did perform well though. When Quinn told the preschool teacher she was attracted to her, she was floundering and started talking very quickly to help fix what she had done. It seemed as though she had made a mistake and was trying to distract the preschool teacher from the fact that she admitted she had feelings for her. By doing this she successfully pursued her objective by trying to show that she regretted the decision to tell her. However, you could tell that the preschool teacher was flattered that someone had admitted that she was attractive.