Behind Closed Doors: Play Analysis

Playspent is an online-based game of balancing the budget while doing all the activities necessary in a life of a low-income person or family. It is designed in a way to present the life of a low-income person or family. It might be an online-based game but it has a lot of connection with the real life scenarios. Based on my experience of playing this game, it is a game that requires critical to make each and every decision in various scenarios. During the game, I couldn’t understand it is something I am doing online rather; it is designed in a way that made me feel I am actually making the decisions in my real life. This game can easily pursue someone to think about the reason behind poverty and the life of people with poverty. Moving on to

Is it Important for a child to play? The obvious answer would be yes but what constitutes play? Free unstructured play? Structured play? What differences do these types of play involve and which is better? The question why should my child play and why can’t they do it alone comes to mind to many parents often or is sometimes not even thought about in their busy lives to keep the child provided for. It is often at the back of our minds that children enjoy themselves while making sure they have everything needed to survive is right at the forefront.

Description of the situation, After receiving the IDs for the students in my group, I sent regular mail to arrange a meeting.The initial procedure of performing a role-play required a meeting among the individual participating. As explained by Tuckman and Jensen (1977), there are five stages of group development. These steps are determined as forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. Based on the Tuckman and Jensen (1977), development theory it is essential for a team to be coordinated when there is a task to be accomplished at a collaborative level. The purpose of the meeting was to allocate roles to everyone and introduced to each other. The people involved in the group were Consultant, dietarian, physiotherapist, occupation therapist, social worker, discharge nurse, (Mary’s daughter and son-in-law), adult nurse and diabetic nurse.

We made sure to stay onto of our work and were able to go back and help other group member who worked after us with their parts as well. Because we worked through Google Drive, we were able to all work on the project equally at the same time. We all logged in, created our slides, added our information and picture, and left comments for one another on there. Bhavik introduced me to a new meaning to the quote, ”I don’t want to see you—die—trying not to suffer,” which I was able to later use in my presentation (Baldwin 264). I set up a group text message so we were able to ask each other questions and stay connected at anytime. Our group also met up in the library the morning before presenting so we could discus how we would present to the class. Working in the group setting was very important because we were able to hear each other’s different interpretations of scenes we did not understand or scenes we analyzed

My group consisted of four other members-Christy, Daniel, Brian, and Allison. When we were first introduced to the idea of a small group project we knew that our presentation had to entertain the audience, and at the same time inform them. At that point, we were functioning as individuals. Each of us tossed out a ton of ideas and some were shot down right away. That took about 5minutes. Then Daniel mentioned that we can do a parody of the television show Change of Hearts, and it stuck to us like glue. Gradually we began to feed into his revelation, and started to add our personal touches. Each of us became elaborators. For about 15 minutes we took the idea and expanded it to see where it could lead

A gritty, urban drama that introduces the world to Ahking a.k.a. King, an unorthodox drug dealer who is at the top of his game. Follow King through the trials and tribulations of being the head the wears the crown and what it takes to keep it. Ahking has come to the conclusion that in this game of drugs, murder, and deceit, it’s not about fighting fire with fire, but mind over muscle and everything he does has to be strategically done. This urban web series takes you on a journey where no one can be trusted, watch your back at all times, and most of all every move has to be Calculated if you want to get out this game

Research for The Laramie Project, Moises Kaufman's nationally successful play, began one month after a horrific crime occurred in Laramie, Wyoming. Members of Kaufman's theatrical group, Tectonic Theater Project, travelled to the open ranges of the West in order to gather in-person interviews from Laramie's populace. The purpose was to capture the emotions, reflections, and reactions of the people who were most closely and personally associated to the crime—the brutal beating and subsequent death of a young gay college student named Matthew Shepard. This incidence had become a national symbol of the struggle against intolerance and brought attention to the lack of hate crime laws in the U.S. One of the most powerful “moments” in the play was “Dennis Shepard’s Statement” in which Matthew’s father delivered a moving and very

The fountain School of Performing arts performed the play Quality Street written by J.M. Barrie in the Sir James Dunn Theatre. This play was first performed on Broadway in 1901. The main message that runs through this play is the possibility of second chances. The play argues this through means of showing that the characters ended up with what they wanted after they took matters into their own hands and lived life the way they wanted. Phoebe Throssel, played by Ms. Ivy Charles, is only able to win the love Valentine, Played by Mr. Peter Sarty, when she takes her life back into her own hands. This play plays with the notion of small town life and everyone knowing each other’s business and how the constant fear of judgment can really limit

I chose the All in the Timing and the play Sure thing. The setting of the scene is in a small café, so I placed just a regular brown table with two regular wooden chairs in the middle of the stage. I placed it in the middle so that everybody could see what is going on and because that is where everything takes place. And on top of the table I have a small cup of coffee in a purple cup, I chose purple because when I drink coffee at home I drink out of my purple mug. In the center of the table I have placed a pink vase with a red rose in it, pink because I connect pink with the color red and I chose red for the rose because most roses are red. I have the walls of the café stripped with the colors white and teal. While reading this play I just

I attended Company at the Louis Armstrong theatre on Grand Valley State University’s Campus on Saturday, February 7th, 2015.

The Play “Pardon Me” is set in the mid 1950s. The Korean War has ended our Country is at peace, pre-Vietnam and the military draft is still in effect.

Tony Kushner places 1980’s Zillah in his 1930’s play to show parallels from the past to the present. According to Scott Ebersold’s Columbia University’s MFA Director’s Thesis, Kushner wondered, “Why...shouldn’t audiences hear an unapologetic didactic, presentational voice as well as representational scenes?” (5). Hence, for the USC revised versions, Kushner added Xillah, a character from 2018, to draw even more political parallels. It is interesting how through these characters, the audience sees the use of projections, in the form of text on the upstage wall of the apartment set. The audience is able to be placed into context before the scenes in main character Agnes’ Germany apartment take place again. The use of lighting to highlight the Zillah and Xillah transports the audience through time, as they are both given spotlights while they interrupt the 1930’s apartment life. This lighting effect allowed for the separation of the past (1930’s), more recent past (1980’s), and present (2018). Parallels being drawn from Hitler, to Reagan, to Trump were all headlined under their own light, and kept separate until the end of the play when Zillah brings the worlds of past and present together, as she steps into the light in the apartment when she is

Our group consisted of five members. The first step was to meet the group and get to know each other. However, for this meeting, two members including me didn’t show up. This made it harder for me to share my ideas and I ended up working more individually than as a group. After the first meeting, two of the hardest working members of the group strike an idea for a service to launch in the UK,something which would benefit us health wise and financially. We then came up with questions and started answering them and thus brainstormed a plan.They then split the work into six sub-topics. This made the researching task very easy, as we were five and each one of us chose a sub-topic that we wanted to do and the sixth sub topic was split between two members. There were no arguments over the selection of the sub-topics, and that was a positive sign about the group for us. The group was always in touch with each other through a WhatsApp group and emails, which is very important for group work. “Communication-the human connection- is key to career and personal success” (Paul J Meyer). The work was more individual based now, I chose Business Strategy and was willing to do half of Operational Strategy as it was the sub topic that required the most work so we decided to split it into two. During this time, is where I felt we were not functioning well because no one volunteered nor was interested to help me with the operational strategy. However, we all finished our sub topics and submitted it to one of the members who then created the powerpoint and sent it to all of us. There were no arguments until we were supposed to meet after a class to practice our presentation as a group and to make final changes. Only two of the members attended, unfortunately I did not go to this one as well and one of the members was really unsatisfied and unhappy with our commitment towards the presentation. After talking to the member, making sure she is satisfied and to be more committed towards the task, We then decided as a group to meet

Being involved in a group project was a challenge for me, due to the fact that we had some communication problems between our group members in the beginning. First of all, we started with a brainstorming, analysing the opportunities of companies around Hendon Central. More than this, we agreed on the same firm and started our work. Within a teamwork, there are some challenges that occur such as remaining focused on a direction, splitting equally the work and choosing a good leader. Bearing all this in mind, I might say that we did our best during the presentation and we coped with the minor communication issues. From this experience, I realized that I am a good leader and I can manage efficiently a project.

At one point in time, I hated role plays. You never know what to expect from one second to the next. Feelings of anxiety and some nervousness always sprout up when I know there is a role play to perform. Furthermore, the thought of acting, knowing it was not a real scenario is daunting. Everybody would be staring at you, and this makes me slightly uncomfortable. Many thoughts raced through my mind. For example, What if I said the wrong thing, what if I did the wrong thing; or what if my acting skills were not up to par. Role playing made no sense to me because, in real life situations, I knew it would be different. I would be able to respond accordingly, and not feel judged by all of the eyes that were focused on me. As a result, my client in real life would benefit from our therapeutic sessions. It is funny though, because once the role play in the class started, feelings of calmness surrounded me. In addition, my game face was on, I was cool and collected. In part this can be attributed to the calm atmosphere my classmates created, and also, the fact the professor met me where I was at. He portrayed an elderly individual who was experiencing symptoms of depression. This was right up my alley as I have many years working with the elderly population.