American plays

to readers’ of Shakespeare, as he only appears in the play three times. His actions do not have a hugely significant importance in Hamlet, but his role in the play is still pivotal. The character of Horatio is seen at the beginning and the end of the play, even after the deadly poisoning and sword fight, resulting in the deaths of everyone in the court. Horatio is also one of the only characters to remain sane for the entirety of the play. He is the only person to see heartening sides of…

inevitable. Once it is accepted, the access to success is granted. The acceptance of failure ignites motivation in the soul bringing about a stronger work ethic. Sports are games of failure. If I make an error playing second base, I tell myself, “next play” in order to move forward. This is a difficult lesson for most people to grasp. It is easier to drill this into a child's head than an adult's head, and athletics make this possible. Time management and responsibility are major components in…

The play Ubudoda uses frames of the Actor/character, audience and space to portray a flowing series of events. The use of all these frames in a production helps to create a play that allows people playing each individual frame to interpret it differently. Ubudoda is a majority Xhosa play that explores the notion of what it is to be a man. It explores this core theme through Luyanda. Luyanda is coming back to South Africa after many years of studying in the United Kingdom. His reason for…

In the film, The Devil’s Playground, a group of Amish kids are experiencing what the world is like outside the culture of being Amish. These kids are undergoing all the different activities to do that regular “English” kids get to experience on a day to day basis. Each day, an Amish kid of age will go out into the real world and experience what other kids do. According to the Amish, this is called, “rumspringa.” When an Amish teen of 16, he or she will be able to go out into the real world to…

her life. Her play, Bag Lady , was all about her, therefore, she played every role, created every dance move, and the scenes in the play were out of her memory. Her show represented a comical, yet tragic story of how a woman could create and carry baggage from relationship to relationship, ultimately creating more baggage. We first see Mac in the play as a child,…

Will Eno’s play “Intermission” is arranged as a play in between a play, with all of the action inserted during the intermission of a play that the characters are attending. From the beginning of this play it is noted that the four major actors have issues with time, reality, and boredom by their conversations. The same could be said for the intermission during Andrew Lee’s performance. In considerations of Eno’s play and Lee’s performance, what are the effects of and intermissions insertion or…

lawsuits and complaints have led us to adding more and more regulations on slides, toys, and even the ground where kids play. Have we gone too far on holding our kids back from fun? Hanna would say that making all these restrictions on a child’s free time and enjoyment doesn’t reduce the amount of injuries, but just reduces the child’s creativity that came with the old ways of play. All and all, is it better for our kids to freely learn, experience things, and grow into adults instead of being…

game, so that way people don’t get hurt or the person feeling the emotions get hurt by their own self. This small percentile of the population that play these games use the games as a way to get ideas of what they can do to others. This is the reason the games are rated M. It is because the game creators think that most people are mature enough to play on there own. Parents are able to buy these games for their kids because they trust that the adults will be able to make the kids realize that…

including using our imagination to create worlds. Imaginative play, or pretend play, has been described as transforming the present moment in which a child exists (Garvey & Berndt, 1975). It usually involves maneuvering one’s perception of reality creating a pretend world within the mind of the child pretending (Garvey & Berndt, 1975). Though the purpose of imaginative or pretend play is not completely clear evidence suggests that play may help children to develop cognitively, emotionally,…

is asked of them if the child has many distraction this can lead to the child not paying any interest in the adult and wandering off due to distractions. For example there is a particular child in the class i am in who always wants to go outside and play and often finds anything he can to fiddle with one day i carried out a short activity with this child and a couple of children which was just by the door to outside and there was a few odd bits on the floor for him to fiddle with as soon as we…