On October 19th, 2017, I had the honor to attend the Indiana State University production of A Piece of My Heart. This play could be considered a historical documentary and was full of drama, thrill, and action. A Piece of My Heart was originally written by Shirley Lauro, a very popular play writer with many other well-known plays. The play was based around 6 extremely strong and opinionated women who were sent to the Vietnam War to either help or entertain the American Men. Consisting of 5 army nurses, one country singer, and multiple different army men the production was able to provide a full understanding of how life was in Vietnam during the war. This play was performed by Indiana State University students. In A Piece of My Heart, we meet the multiple nurses, as stated above. First, was Steele. She was African American, and I felt like dealt with the hardships of being in the Vietnam War the most. However, she was still extremely strong, and very smart. Moving on is Martha, she was what you could consider an “army brat,” (one of her parents were in the army.) She was very motivated with tons of self-discipline. Next is Sissy, my favorite character, Sissy was just a very sweet and caring individual; from Pennsylvania. Whitney, she could be described as a very calm and situated individual, in the inside she was dealing with some issues which caused her to turn to drinking. Last but not least, Leann, the half-Chinese, half-Italian army nurse. She could be considered quite
“The Producers” is one of the most famous musicals in Broadway. Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan adapted the musical from the 1968 film of the same name. The musical is about two producers that oversell interest in a Broadway flop in order to become wealthy. The musical consist in play with in the musical. The producers, Max and Leo, choose the worst play ever written and the worst director. However, the play turns out to be successful and Max goes to jail and Leo escapes with the money to Rio. The two more important external event in the play are the event when Leo decides to help Max and the moment when the play becomes a success.
March of 2017 brought snow, rain showers, and a great musical to Hillsdale College’s campus. This semester, the Hillsdale College theatre department performed a magnificent rendition of the classic 1950’s play, Kiss Me Kate. Thanks to my core class’s requirements, I was blessed with the golden opportunity to see a marvelous musical that brought me much joy.
The theatrical work being discussed in this critique is the 2016 revival of the broadway musical She Loves Me. This production was directed by Scott Ellis and produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company. The first revival performance of She Loves Me took the stage on February 19th, 2016 with the final performance being on July 10th, 2016. This romantic comedy is describing the story of two pen pals who fall in love through countless letters , addressing each other as “ Dear Friend “. Set in 1930s Hungary , mainly taking place in and outside of Mr.Maraczek’s Parfumerie . Amalia Balash and Georg Nowack, work in the shop together, strongly disliking each other, but coincidentally are the two letter correspondents. When the “Dear Friends” are finally supposed to meet at the Cafe Impériale, Georg realising that his pen-pal is
A Piece of My Heart is about six women who joined Vietnam War as nurses, a Red Cross volunteer, and a USO country-western singer. They need to face to death during the war. After the war, they suffer difference between the truth of Vietnam War and society’s opinion. On the other hand, Yamato is mainly about male soldiers of the Japanese Navy during World War II. Yamato also displays how women who are not in the war think about the war. Yamato is the name of the largest Japanese battleship. When they built this battleship, Japan had been defeated in several areas. At that time, the Japanese government decided to make young men who were 15 to 17 years old join the war.
Last April Something Rotten! came to Broadway at the St. James Theatre on 44th Street.
(AAIWWII 2017) The nurses were tough and kept persevering through it all and did not let others discourage them from doing their jobs. This is what made certain African American groups stand out against the rest. Interesting
The book, The Wednesday Wars by Gary D Schmidt is about a 7th grader named Holling Hoodhood who has to stay in Mrs Baker’s room on Wednesdays. His Catholic and Jewish classmates leave school early for religious reasons. Holling has a rocky start thinking that Mrs. Baker hates him, but eventually she becomes a great mentor and adviser to Holling. Characters or humans can change and develop over time.
2o years later and still confrontational A revival of Nick Enright’s Good Works, was demanded after not been staged in Sydney since 1994. Almost two decades forward, Darlinghurst Theatre company have collaboration in order to produce a play a year by Australian writer Nick Enright. Enright’s Good Works spans across the political, cultural and social Australian history from the nineteen sixties to the nineteen eighties.
When someone thinks of a nurse they think of some of these characteristics: leader, courage, honesty, hard-working, smart, flexible, and educator.
For the live theatre critique project I watched the Dearly Departed play. I watched this show at the Klein Oak High School auditorium and I watched it on November 9, 2015 at 7:00 P.M. Dearly Departed was about a guy name Bud who dies as known as Andrew Brown in the play his family plans a funeral for him, but everything goes wrong. Junior and Ray-Bud get into a fight and start punching each other they both were bad and were separated they both later sat down together drank beer and solved out the situation and they both apologized to each other. Everyone in The Dearly Departed play were really frustrated because Bud dies and Junior and Ray-Bud get into a fight Junior
The nurse I chose is Olivia Harper from the hit television show Grey’s Anatomy. She fits the demographic profile of the type of nurse that Kalisch & Kalisch (1986) determined is most represented in the mass media. This means that she is female, Caucasian, under 35 years of age, and childless. Her role with patients is pretty minimal. Sometimes she is shown preforming skills like administering medication, but for the most part she is shown following whatever orders to the doctors gives her, like to check for breath sounds on a patient.
Subterranean Homesick Blues Again written by Dennis Reardon, a comedy yet horrific play was about a tour guide who messes with the heads of 2 touring couples who are always disagreeing, and is placed in a famous Caverns. Right towards the end directs the readers into a very dark and serious setting/atmosphere. I believe the purpose is to be aware and pay attention.
On Tuesday, October 3, 2017, I saw an original drama called "The Skin of Our Teeth," directed by Professor of Theater, Gail Cronauer. The play starts at 8 pm and took approximately 3 hours to complete. The play took place at The John Anthony Theatre on Collin College's Spring Creek Campus.
The Doctor in Spite of Himself is a play that I had previously studied in France like many of Molière’s plays. I thought that it was ironic for me to go see the play for the first time in theatre in the United States. I was really looking forward to hear how the actors would pronounce the characters’ French names, which are rather exotic even for me. I think that because I had previously studied Molière’s work in class, I was expecting this play to be performed in a much more traditional style. I was a little disconcerted at first when seeing the actors performing a more modern version than what I had in mind. I ended up liking what Arne Zaslove has done with the play. In my opinion, modernizing it a
The Parable of the Talents therefore refers to the metaphor "life is a precious possession." If you have many talents, you must "invest" them wisely--use them as you should use material goods, in a charitable way. If you have a few talents, you must invest them wisely as well. Even if you have only one talent, you must invest it wisely and do good in the world with that talent.In an important way, the play Everyman demonstrates the ways in which a person who does have talents (Good Deeds that are trapped in the ground) wastes them, like the servant who buries his one talent in the ground and is cast into the dark, the "place of wailing and grinding of teeth." According to the play's allegory, what forces in