Stick Fly
“A Martha’s Vineyard weekend erupts on politics, class and race in this funny and deep family drama.” Stick Fly, introduces the audience to a young black couple spending the weekend with the man’s (Spoon) family. While they couple settles in, the young lady, Taylor, is nervous about meeting her fiancés wealthy family for the first time. While waiting on the family to arrive, we are introduced to the character of Cheryl, the housekeeper’s daughter who is working for her mother because she is ill. The next character we meet is Spoon’s brother, Flip. As soon as Flip enters the house, there is tension between him and Taylor, but we’re not sure why. While waiting on their mother and father to arrive, Flip tells Spoon, Taylor, and …show more content…
This play was one of the longest plays I had ever sat in on, but it didn’t feel like it. The characters and the story kept making me want more. It was that good! This play, however, did provide more than just entertainment. It provided a sense of wonder, wonder about the lives of the characters, what they felt, what they thought, and what they did. Stick Fly allowed its audience to step into the lives of all sides of living; the life of the wealthy, the life of a middle class women, and the life of a lower class teenager. Different races, classes, and views of people were all left with the single question (line), “Do you think they like …show more content…
Kent, “Spoon”, the youngest child of a family filled with success and a guy filled with hopes and dreams. that some people just can’t understand. He lives trying to please his father, all while living under the shadow of his older, more successful brother. Spoon has tried many different careers and tried to like all of them, but he always came back to writing, but writing is not something that pleased his family. I am Spoon. I am Spoon, because I to live in the shadow of my successful sister. My sister graduated college in four years, obtaining both her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree. She’s a high school teacher, which gets far more praises than an early childhood teacher would ever get. She has been awarded numerous awards for her teaching, and this is only her second year. I face the pressure Spoon faces within his family, with some of my own and with my community. When people ask me what I am doing with my life, I never get the, “Good Job!” or the “Oh Wow!” responses my sister receives on a daily basis. I live in her shadow, trying to be half the person she is, trying to please the
“A Martha’s Vineyard weekend erupts on politics, class and race in this funny and deep family drama.” Stick Fly, introduces the audience to a young black couple spending the weekend with the man’s (Spoon) family. While they couple settles in, the young lady, Taylor, is nervous about meeting her fiancés wealthy family for the first time. While waiting on the family to arrive, we are introduced to the character of Cheryl, the housekeeper’s daughter who is working for her mother because she is ill. The next character we meet is Spoon’s brother, Flip. As soon as Flip enters the house, there is tension between him and Taylor, but we’re not sure why. While waiting on their mother and father to arrive, Flip tells Spoon, Taylor, and …show more content…
This play was one of the longest plays I had ever sat in on, but it didn’t feel like it. The characters and the story kept making me want more. It was that good! This play, however, did provide more than just entertainment. It provided a sense of wonder, wonder about the lives of the characters, what they felt, what they thought, and what they did. Stick Fly allowed its audience to step into the lives of all sides of living; the life of the wealthy, the life of a middle class women, and the life of a lower class teenager. Different races, classes, and views of people were all left with the single question (line), “Do you think they like …show more content…
Kent, “Spoon”, the youngest child of a family filled with success and a guy filled with hopes and dreams. that some people just can’t understand. He lives trying to please his father, all while living under the shadow of his older, more successful brother. Spoon has tried many different careers and tried to like all of them, but he always came back to writing, but writing is not something that pleased his family. I am Spoon. I am Spoon, because I to live in the shadow of my successful sister. My sister graduated college in four years, obtaining both her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree. She’s a high school teacher, which gets far more praises than an early childhood teacher would ever get. She has been awarded numerous awards for her teaching, and this is only her second year. I face the pressure Spoon faces within his family, with some of my own and with my community. When people ask me what I am doing with my life, I never get the, “Good Job!” or the “Oh Wow!” responses my sister receives on a daily basis. I live in her shadow, trying to be half the person she is, trying to please the