Little Shop Of Horrors Play Analysis

Thankfully the run of Elephant's Graveyard at GCC has come to an end. The plays overly dark, cautionary tale about the evils of using wild animals to entertain the masses, left its audience depressed and deflated. While many playwrights have dark themes such as this play, they usually balance it with some levity and humor so that audiences are entertained as well as motivated to react to the playwrights cause. Unfortunately this play forgot to entertain, and neglected to offer any light.

“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.

The play Wicked, written by American lyricist Stephen Schwartz, was a play that demonstrated several conflicts that a person went through during their lifetime. Elphaba, the protagonist, was born with green skin because of a choice that her mother made. She had to deal with the fear and the looks that people gave her because of her appearance. Elphaba dealt with the mockery of others during her years in school. When reading the play, one could compare Elphaba’s circumstances to discrimination or racism towards African Americans in the nineteen sixties. In college, she discovered that she had magical powers that she could use for good. The people in the town of Oz stereotyped her and assumed she was a witch who wanted to harm everyone because of her

The acting and singing was well done. Especially the singing, which was catchy and groovy.

Watching the play to kill a Mockingbird was a wonderful production that captures the audience attention. A playwright is a person who writes plays for that stage and also they create scripts that tell stories through the words and action of characters. Most of the playwright’s people work alone and some of the time they share the work of creating script with the actors and directors.

The play I saw was The Woman in Black by Steven Mallatratt, based on the novel by Susan Hill. It was a matinee performance in The Lyric, Theatre Royal on Thursday the 21st of May 2015. The Woman in Black follows the tale of Arthur Kipps, who has hired an actor to help him become confident in telling his ghastly tale. The Theatre Royal is a regional theatre, this means that different performances come down to perform for a certain amount of time.

Last April Something Rotten! came to Broadway at the St. James Theatre on 44th Street.

In the novel The Outsiders, Ponyboy learns many lessons throughout the story. He learns that Socs are not that different than greasers. He thinks that Darry hates him, but realizes that Darry actually loves him. Ponyboy learns fighting is useless. Throughout the novel, Ponyboy learns that Socs are not that different than greasers, that Darry truly loves him, and that fighting is useless.

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.

Not everyone loves musicals as much as others, but most people can recognize when someone says “FEED ME” or “DON’T FEED THE PLANTS”. The well-known musical Little Shop of Horrors took over the Dubois Little Theater this December under the direction of Ms. Shannon McNutt. Little Shop of Horrors is a fun, musical about a “young botanical genius,” Seymour Krelborn, his boss, and future foster father, Mr. Mushnik, and the young, dramatic and attractive Audrey. Seymour was a shy and sheltered man until he found a strange and interesting plant, which he named Audrey Two after his one true love, Audrey. The musical follows Seymour as he tries to get his sentient, bloodthirsty plant to grow so he can reap the benefits, but his morals quickly catch up with him as he begins to lose everything that matters. I believe that this show was worthwhile to see and be part of.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is a novel that explores how dreadful and evil the Holocaust was through the eyes of an innocent child. Boyne understands that for the readers to truly understand the horror of Holocaust, it has to be told through the eyes of someone who has lived through it. The protagonist, Bruno, is ignorant of what horrifying events are going on around him at the time, but becomes friends with a boy on the other side of the fence of a concentration camp called “Out-With” which is based on the real life Auschwitz. With a strong friendship, lack of knowledge, and irony, childlike innocence is revealed throughout the story, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne.

''The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you! The power of Christ compels you!!! ...'' Father Merrin&Father Damien Karras from the movie -The Exorcist-

On the 28th April 2011, I went to see a professional production of To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee at the 'Blackpool Grand Theatre'. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is set in 1935 in Alabama, a story about innocence, knowledge, prejudice and courage. In the beginning the main character, Scout, starts out to be a very immature child not knowing the prejudice times around her, as the story goes on she gains knowledge of these times by fellow kids around her accusing her dad of being a "nigger lover" which then was an insult. Her father was being courageous of a black man being falsely accused of raping a white girl. Her father, Atticus, is a criminal defence attorney only

Throughout the play, I enjoyed the role of music used to set a comic atmosphere and replace the dialogs during comic scenes (e.g. when they chase each other around). I also thought that they made a good use of light to indicate the moment of the day the scene was happening or to set the atmosphere of the scene (e.g. pink colour during the romantic moments). Lastly, I liked the way the play ended. Even though it was a little messy with everyone running after each other off and on stage, and this policeman coming out of nowhere, which really surprised me; I couldn’t think of a better way to end the play.

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.