What's Done In The Dark Play Analysis

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What’s Done in the Dark is one of many great plays that Tyler Perry has written. It is a musical intertwined with a tough life lesson. Perry’s play has many great qualities. However, it does have its faults. Overall, it is a well thought out and drawn up play. It is well liked by many; it has some of the best performers that have performed in many of his other plays. This play focuses on a single mother struggling to raise her son, with a deadbeat father and the head nurse (who is the mistress of the head doctor). The single mother is a great nurse, yet she struggles with the monthly bills and making a way for her son to go to college. The father is no help to his son’s life and went off to start another family. The head nurse has a secret relationship with the head doctor because it was against office policies. However, she is unaware of the fact that he is …show more content…
The way he allows the actors to get into their character so much, that it will make you feel the great emotion. Once he grabs your emotional state, he then goes for your mental state. He makes you think of what you should do in that kind of situation, also how bad it really is. The play as a whole goes in to great doubt on what is really happening in society. It is brought forth in the play as somewhat humorous. People will still ignore the fact that there is someone who may really need help. The creativity of how he decides to bring forth the situation is spontaneous. What’s Done in the Dark, message is a very powerful to majority and a lesson to another. It makes you think about what people will do at the debts of themselves and how they can use people. Tyler Perry did a great job on this play. The actors he chose as the performers really brought out the play to a great success. This play really is well developed and is just excellent. When it is all over, you are left with sensational emphasis on a great problem in

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