She Kills Monster Play Analysis

The performance that I saw for She Kills Monsters was the preview show. My expectations for this play was different from the I and You play. Since the play was about a dead sister I expected the whole thing to be sad or depressing kind of but it was the complete opposite. The play had many twist and turns surprising moments that I didn’t even expect. A live theater that I saw before this play would be I and You, these plays were similar relating that they both were about death yet, each play expressed death in two different ways, she kills monster was more of a comical play.
If I were to tell a family member what the "spine" of the play was I would tell them that it is about two sisters that were complete opposite of each other and did not …show more content…
I was not very fond of the design where everything took place because it would change a different place for the scene but still be in the same spot where they left off just different characters. I know they did as much as they could since they could not just tear the set down and build a new one every time it changed to a different place. So I did start to understand when they were changing to a different place. If it started off in Agnus old house, then it would be empty because she was packing up. If they wanted the scene to be at the school they would add the desk in there or chairs to represent the school house. They would do these transitions by either dimming the lights so that it was dark when they did the change or they would have two back stage people come in dressed in all black holding the door so that the characters could walk through it representing a new room. Another way the showed transitioning from one set to another is in the castle. By them going up the step sand then coming back down that showed that they were at a new level or floor of the castle where they then though their next mission. The costumes were great as well as the fantastic make-up. The dragons and villains costumes were great and it looked like the costume designer put a lot of hard work into them because they came out very nice. The actors were very realistic. The sound was used throughout the evening when they defeated someone and also through sound effects. The sounds that they hear were great sound effects when they were fighting. They had punching sound effects and even evil villain