Woman In America Play Analysis

The location of the play was at the University of North Texas in the Radio, Television and Film building. Inside of the building there was a black box, and a smaller room to the side, that had a set that perfectly portrayed the time period. The couches and chairs really seemed to fit with the era that the play was set in. Also, to the sides of the set there were large representations of windows that lights shown on throughout the play. Each set of lights depicted a different part of the day to show the passage of time.
At the beginning of the play Fefu is anticipating the arrival of a majority of her friends, since some were already on set. As each woman arrives the level of energy escalates rapidly. While at first many of the women stay silent at uncomfortable moments, like women of that era mostly did, and kept problems within themselves, soon they begin to reveal what is truly wrong. Each individual woman has their own personal struggles and issues to deal with, soon the root of all their problems …show more content…
At the very end Fefu goes off to kill a white rabbit, which in turn kills her friend Julia, Fefu returns to find her dead friend in her wheelchair. At first there’s no understanding to this, but when the audience finally understands that each woman is a representation of Fefu’s emotions then it is seen that killing off Julia was killing off Fefu’s “weakness.”
While this killing off was not fully explained until the talk back, the cast portrayed each woman well. While each woman was interpreted and portrayed perfectly for that individual, they did not work well together. However, the issues they each portrayed hit home pretty extremely for me, it was difficult to understand without the personal experience. The responsibilities of the director were to make sure that the actors were preforming to explain what was going on, this was not done and little