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A Piece Of My Heart Play Analysis

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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

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