American plays

Children are usually seen as innocent, as they play around with others and are just balls of energy. Often seen as simply kids who have no experience in the outside world until they grow older. However, sometimes a child’s play can go wrong and can affect another’s life. When these incidents happen where a death is involved, it’s often easy for society to look at the offender as a murder who should be in prison for the rest of their life despite what age the offender may be. While juveniles…

West Side Story is a play that reciprocates the harsh times during World War Two between two races. America was in a war and there were many Puerto Rican immigrants coming to the states in seek of a refuge. In this play there are two sides named the Jets and the Sharks. These two sides represent the Americans and Puerto Ricans during this time. I saw this play with my family on Broadway in 2009 and enjoyed this play. West Side Story is not only filled with action and romance but is also full…

Metamorphoses appealed to me as I have always been drawn to plays compiled of vignettes as an audience member. The similarly styled production Almost Maine, by John Cariani, is my personal favorite due to its vignette nature. As a director, I saw the potential with the range of characters. Once I put down the play after first reading it, I had a lot of ideas running amuck. To help identify what my vision was in simpler terms and start to filter my ideas, I began by defining a shape, color, and…

However, Morgan saw the need for a game that did not require a fast pace as basketball did. He wanted a game that the average person would be able to enjoy. The game he created was a combination of baseball, basketball, tennis and handball. The first to play volleyball was a group of workers from the Holyoke, Massachusetts YMCA. They borrowed a tennis net and raised it to a height of 6 feet 6 inches, which was a little higher than the average person’s head. As time went on, the net was set…

Correlation to natives Native-colonizer relations Views of civility Notes Works Cited The Tempest: A Tale of the New World William Shakespeare?s The Tempest symbolized exploration in the New World and its colonization by Europeans. Throughout the play there are several events which make clear connections to both European-native relations and encounters by explorers in the New World. When reading The Tempest with…

brilliant play about a dysfunctional family that is obligated to deal with veiled duplicities and cruelty. The storyline follows a dysfunctional family who gather together after the father leaves home, offering no word of his whereabouts. The issues of this play transcend all periods of time and place. The plot of the play is intriguing and the characters are well developed, slowly unveiling their secrets. The family dynamics have been presented in a way that criticizes our contemporary American…

Playwright August Wilson uses his plays to display the struggles of Black Americans living throughout the twentieth century. In fact, August Wilson uses The piano Lesson to uncover the hardships Boy Willie and his family face focusing on a time when his family was held captive as slaves to a chance to own his own piece of land. The Piano Lesson demonstrates the importance of family heirlooms and how no amount of money could ever replace the sentimental value they hold. Berniece and Boy Willie…

These cultural memories become stable, reliant on the need for critics to enter productions with preconceived notions of what to expect when critiquing revivals of plays that have, by canonization, received mythic status. Yet the first actors who performed the famous roles written by Tennessee Williams did not have to compete with canonized interpretations. The original performances of Laurette Taylor’s Amanda, Marlon Brando’s Stanley, and Burl Ives’s Big Daddy were acts of creation, rather than…

basically summarizes the job of a scenic designer, who is responsible for bringing the world of the production onto the stage. The scenic designer (or set designer) is expected to fulfill five basic goals in order to design an overall concept for the play. Firstly, he designs the concept, which extends the director's production concept into a complete plan for the visual aspects of the production, including the style of the scenery, the number of scenic locations, how the stage action will move…

Character Analysis of Mama in the “A Raisin in the Sun” The play, “A Raisin in the Sun” describes a few months in the life of an African-American family, the Youngers, living in Chicago in the 1950s. When the play begins, the family is about to receive insurance compensation amounting to $10,000. This compensation is as a result of the deceased Mr. Younger’s life cover policy. According to the play, each of the grown up members of the Youngers has an idea on how to spend the family fortune. Mama…