Stupid Shameing Bird: Summary

The play I decided to see for my theatre experience was the called Stupid Fucking Bird. Myself and two other from the class went down to Portland Center Stage theatre in downtown. Walking up to the play there had been a good about people walking in to the theatre as due to the fact that it was just about to start. As we walking into the main door I was actual taken back with how many people I had see inside the box area. The people who where here to see the play where on the older side of life. We were defiantly the youngest people there I am pretty sure. As we walked down to our seats in the orchestra the state was actually really big, I was not expecting that, it didn’t have a great amount of props for the first act but had some. This …show more content…
Conrad was scared to put it on because he had found that his mother was bring he new boyfriend the successful writer Doyle Trigorin. As they are finishing setting up the lights on the down stage dim and the upstage light come alive with there actors. That was made up Emma, Doyle and Eugene around the table talking about Conrad’s play they were going to go see. At this point you get the understanding that his mother is not one of his biggest fans and his uncle Eugene cares more for him then is mother. What I saw was great thing was that before every scene one of the actors walk down stage to the audience and sets the setting like “Down by the lake on an autumns afternoon” I really like how they did this. Between the lights and the few props that had on the stage the did a great job of showing what scene they where trying to set up. You can tell that was not going to be an ordinary play. During this first act there were some shocking turn of events. One that came as huge shock to me was when Conrad truly broke the 4th wall. There came a point in the play where Conrad is lost because his girlfriend had fallen in love with his mother’s boyfriend Doyle and he felt like he was losing her. Then he turns to the audience and ask us what he should do to when her back. Being the audience we were all kind of shocked we didn’t know if we where suppose to answer or not. Then out of no where someone said “Get her a bird” then I realized that it was all planned. There were many times through the play that you could see that how they broke the 4th wall. This one time they made references to themselves commenting “This is only a play you know! We are at the US Bank Theatre in downtown Portland” was one of the funnier ones. It just shows how they didn’t want this play to be like any other with respects to