This Random World Play Analysis

This afternoon I attended a Sunday matinee for the production of This Random World written by Steven Dietz and directed by Paul Steger put on by the Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film. I thought that the play tied all of the characters together extremely well and it was incredibly well preformed. Although I usually find plays of this genre of no interest to me, this play changed my opinion. I thought that it was really well done. First I would like to discuss the character of Scottie Ward, also known as Elizabeth Ward. I really felt a strong connection to that character but I don’t know why. I thought that her character was very carefree, she always lived life in the moment and it wasn’t brought to my attention why she had done that …show more content…
I think that he was trying to speak to his audience that they should take risks in life and see everything that they can when given the chance because you never know when that will be cut short and you don’t want to have any regrets. I really agree with the point of view of this text. I’ve always liked traveling, not so that I could tell people how they “need to go visit this place” because of this that in the other thing, but for my own personal reasons. I’ve always tried to live life in the moment and I think that people really should stop worrying so much about their futures, sure it’s something that I think about but it’s nothing that I dwell on because I don’t want to miss what’s happening in the present. I think that the exposition of the play was of course in the first scene, a lot of conflict that happened throughout the play happened in that scene; it’s where most of the plot and characters were revealed. I believe that the inciting incident of the play was also revealed in this first scene when Beth brought up to Tim how he should get in contact with Claire and his mother, Scottie. I identified the rising action as the scene with Scottie and Rhonda in the airport when Scottie reveals that she has been growing sicker and she could not take this journey. I saw the Climax of the play with Beth and Rhonda in Kyoto while trying to find the perfect stone to place in the brass cup. The reason that I thought this was because Beth had brought up how she believed that she would know when her mother died, despite where she was or what she was doing. I think that the part in the scene when Rhonda raised the cup to both her mother and Scottie sort of showed a sort of