Critical Analysis Of Hoods Directed By Leticia Caceres

Through this play Matt Cameron uses transformational acting as a way to portray the idea that it is possible for Ray and Sylvie to be playing a sick game with each other trying to make sense of what happened. As Matt Cameron calls it ‘theatre magic’ Matt Cameron uses this technique that could only be used in theatre to have its full effect. So we can question the message he wants us to receive without having a resolution. It’s like Ray and Sylvie represent society and they want the truth at the same time don’t want the truth. Do we really want to know the harsh truth of what happens behind closed doors.

“No tickets, for we are lost”, whispers the hoodlum youth as they ride the suburban train to the outskirts of Brisbane. This opening quote from the play Hoods signifies the attitude of teenagers whom wait at train stations, seen to be unseen and called the nobody’s of society. The two Hood members played by Jodie Le Vescont and Christopher Somers narrate the story 'Hoods' written by Angelia Betzien, directed by Leticia Caceres and composed by Pete Goodwin and afforded the ability to fast forward, rewind and pause time. It is an impressive theatre play, of three young siblings Kyle, Jessie and Troy waiting in a car abandoned by their mother, who frantically had to abscond after the abuse she obtained from her husband. The current issue of domestic violence is skillfully handled in this Epic theatre style play 'Hoods',

Since the boys were children, the audience can see the differences with their families, the way they are treated by the people around them and indeed their lives.

In order to survive, the main characters must fit in with the community or risk alienation. In The Outsiders, the rivalry, between the Greasers and Socs, remains because generations of innocent boys have grown and fit into their deemed places in adolescent society and fueled the rivalry under the assumption that “nothing ever changes…Greasers will still be Greasers and Socs will still be Socs,” a self-fulfilling prophecy. The only way for boys on the east side to protect themselves from Socs is to assimilate to the Greaser community and participate in the fights against the Socs. Boyz n the Hood depicts Tre’s struggle to assimilate to hood culture where women are treated poorly and used for sex. Tre affects a “hood” vernacular and regales his father with tales of his sexual adventures, despite being a virgin, with a woman named Tisha. Despite knowing his father’s stance on the contraception, Tre claims not to have used protection inciting his father’s disappointment and anger on purpose. The film emphasizes the struggle between Tre’s background and his environment by blocking the two characters in a tight frame with Tre backed up against a refrigerator and Furious invading Tre’s intimate space, symbolic of education

creates a play that illustrates not only the struggle of growing up in a prejudiced world but also

Everyone is tempted by sex, drugs, easy money and the power generated from violence and vengeance. The film “Boyz N the Hood” follows Tre, who moves to a neighborhood in the socioeconomically disadvantaged South Central with his father and becomes involved with new friends. The movie best portrays how being of low socioeconomic status during that time had a devastating effect on an adolescents development. For many young people during that era, the future is a day that never came.

Discrimination has created racial disparities and segregation; as a result, many neighborhoods that have been labeled as the “hood” have primarily black residents. Unfortunately, children born into these neighborhoods suffer a predisposition to violence, drugs, and gang affiliation due to patterns of violence and the lack of adequate resources. The movie Boyz in the Hood portrays the struggles experienced by young black men as they grow up in the ghetto of Los Angeles. This movie accurately depicts the patterns of violence and crime, lack of adequate resources, and government corruption found within many poor, segregated neighborhoods.

The play hoods tells the story of Kyle, Jessie, and Troy, three siblings, stuck in a deserted carpark with nobody but themselves waiting in vain for there mother to return. They must now decide for themselves whether to stay or leave.

In "On the Subway," Sharon Olds shows the distinctions of two people using artistic gadgets, for example, analogies, symbolism, and imagery. The storyteller's musings give more top to bottom comprehension to how society treat the general population that are "comparable" to the kid.

The plot involves a heroin-filled doll that has found its way into the life, and eventually the apartment, of Susy Hendrix. The people who want the doll, are the wicked Harry Roat and his conspirators, Talman and Carlino. Together they scheme to get the doll while Susy conjures up a few tricks of her own to combat them, her blindness becoming as much of a tool as a disability. Knott’s carefully calculated roller coaster of a play is set to shift into high gear when Sam, Susy's husband, is about to leave on a short business trip. Just before Sam leaves in Act I Scene II, he gives Susy some words of encouragement. Then Susy asks; "Do I have to be the world's champion blind woman?" and Sam replies wholeheartedly, "Yes!" Thus, the story starts to roll with Susy reluctantly learning to become independent.

Boyz in the Hood is a statement of how urban youth have been passed a legacy of tragic indifference, and the writer has shown that it is an almost inescapable fate for those born into racism and poverty to repeat the patterns they wish to escape. The movie’s characters are clear representations of how the system fails young black youth in the United States, and the difference one mentor can make for these kids. During segregation young black children became targets for white brutality. This movie reflects what the European mentality and what it has done to the African American culture.

As Wendy’s parents are also experiencing promiscuity through the key bowl game to ultimately find freedom. The breakdown of authority is even shown further when a son watches his mother pick a lover at the key bowl game. The Hood children notice their parent’s relationship wavering, and this becomes an ambiguous model of authority for them as a tension is created. When Wendy’s father discovers her in a sexual act with a Carver boy, he tries to assert the father role, but Wendy defies him, and tells him to quit the “stern father act”. In the end, the children and the adults in the Hood family are all levelled to a similar state, due to their actions and the disintegration of

In more specific terms, the theme regarding strife is defined by the various hardships these teenagers presently encounter such as race, crime, education, family issues, and poverty, all of which can be related to our class lectures. Firstly, race is a basic component in the strife that these teenagers experience. In Canada, those who are black are considered to be part of a minority group. Thus, they are usually at a disadvantage in a mostly white society. An example of this is found in the documentary, where the boys mention that they have been stopped by police for no

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are extremely influential novels that can teach great lessons to teenagers and adults. One of The Outsider’s main themes is; everybody has different problems, but everybody is still the same. This theme is shown throughout the entire novel and explains it well. There are two different groups in the setting of The Outsiders, the socs and the greasers. The socs are the rich kids that drive nice cars and get into a lot of trouble without being punished by their parents, and the greasers are the less wealthy kids that fight with the socs and wear greased back hair and leather jackets. Both of these groups are completely different people, but they still live in the same city and see the same environment. As Ponyboy states “Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset” (Hinton).

which had otherwise segregated the room. As the novel depicts, the youth of the area seem to be the only ones able to put aside their differences.