American plays

In my diary entry, I chose to write a letter from Biff to Willy. These are the characters of the Death of a Salesman by the author, Arthur Miller. I did this to show how Biff felt about his’s and his father’s belief. From what I have read in the play, it seems to me that Biff was living in an unhappy and unsuitable life in New York. As the author states in the book, Biff had tried to do whatever he can to please his dad, not because he was interested in the job. It seemed possible to me to put…

Performing for the Audience Two months ago I went two see a play called Romeo and Juliet. It was a romantic play filed with lots of love and hate amongst two different families. The play took placed at a modern time more like in today’s society, but with the language of Shakespeare. It was very unique with lots of modern fashion which I really liked and the club scenes was very nice but was also un- expecting in some cases for instance, there was a scene a club scene with people dancing and…

image as a success is shattered. He enters a downward spiral in which he cannot accept his present and feels he has no future, except as a cashed-in life insurance policy. This causes him to believe that killing himself is the only option. Willy's American Dream is to be liked and rich and believes personality is the way to success. His eldest son Biff however, is stuck in between two dreams his fathers and his own. He wants to be involved with nature, the great outdoors, and working with his…

audience --precisely the playwright’s intent. Alfred Jerry’s grotesque “Ubu Rex” may well as be the perfect play to describe our current political climate. After all, it does involve a vulgar, incompetent and impulsive individual who manages to bully his way into power, while being unacquainted with state matters or basic etiquettes. Under the Director’s Note, it is mentioned that: “this play was written by rebellious teens to make fun of a teacher. One of them rewrote and launched that script…

Miller’s Death of a Salesman are plays from different times but the basic format and the roles needed to stage a production are quite similar. The roles of the playwright, the actor, the Director, the producer, and the functions of the theatre space and costumes are vital to have a complete theatrical experience of both Death of a Salesman and Medea. There cannot be a performance of Death of a…

execution, our gathering has picked the play Biloxi Blues by the creator Neil Simon. Biloxi Blues was initially performed in theater in late 1984, and won various honor, some of which incorporate the Tony Award for Best Play and Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. The play is intended to be a parody identifying with power, additionally has some dim subjects to it, for example, bigotry and homophobia which are approaching over the generally entertaining play. The play is set in Biloxi,…

In the tragic play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller there is a man by the name of Willy Loman who happens to be a traveling salesman who extremely headstrong. The play is a prime example of how men in that time and still today feel the need to provide everything, including all the luxuries of life for their families. Willy’s character has many flaws in the play with his pride and stubbornness seen through out getting in the way, poor parenting and husband skills, and never learning that…

my hopes on Ansel...He was the smartest probably...Smarter than Bradley, that’s for sure (26).” Halie cannot get over the magnificent son she lost, as she thinks that he is superior to her two boys. Tilden was once the hope of the family as an all-american halfback, but his career got jeopardized by getting into trouble. While the other son Bradley cut one of his legs off with a chainsaw. Halie believed that…

station and someone robbed him. That is a bad look on the Pokémon creators, because it is seems like they are part pf the reason why crime rate is increasing. Furthermore, Pokémon Go has lead people to sex offender’s homes. It is not safe for a child to play a game, which will lead to them to a sex offender. Everywhere is not safe for a child to be wandering around playing a game. Parents deleted the game off of the children phone, so they won’t Because a bunch of accidents were occurring, some…

VUTheatre brought A Shayna Maidel by Barbara Lebow in Neely Auditorium. The play talks about the story of two sisters who have been recently united after the end of world war 2. Young sister, Rose, has spent nearly all her life in New York and remembers little about her sister or family’s native Poland, while the older sister, Lusia has survived the Holocaust and years of imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps. The play follows the sisters as they reconcile with the past and each other,…