Neil Simon Reflection

Performing arts are so vital to our everyday life because they provide us with a unique way to learn about history or to be educated on various issues. The play, Trouble In Mind by Alice Childress is an amazing example of how humor can be utilized in a play and still have a social impact. Alice Childress was a talented writer that thought about her audience when writing her play. She was able to use the everyday language and social issues that people encounter in order to attract a diverse audience. Childress was able to appeal to a diverse audience because she applied her amazing writing skills to write a play-within-a-play that presented struggles that the black actors were facing similar to the struggles that were in the play they were rehearsing

11. Point out some moments in the play when the playwright conveys much to the audience without dialogue

Throughout history, literature has been able to captivate and enchant audiences of all backgrounds. Words have an undeniable ability to sway a crowd’s emotions and truly affect them. William Shakespeare, one of the most revered writers of all time, had such skills. His plays are timeless pieces of art considered the foundations of the English literature. Shakespeare’s most dramatic and infamous tragedy, Hamlet, has earned its place as a cornerstone. In the play, Shakespeare poetically writes speeches that show the true colours of the characters, whether good or devious. The main antagonist, Claudius, shows his treachery to the Elizabethan audience, through his speech to his wife Gertrude. Claudius’ conversation with Gertrude in Act 4,

In this play, the author Alan Bennett wants to convince the audience that education can be approached in many different ways. In fact, through the characters of Hector, Irwin, Dorothy Lintott and the headmaster, he shows us that there is no “right” or “wrong” way of teaching.

Blindness was another dramatic irony in the play, and relates to the entire play at large.

On Thursday evening, February 9, 2017, my mother drove me to Georgia State Perimeter College Clarkston Campus which is located in Clarkston, Georgia for my second mandatory encounter for HUMN 1000. Due to the fact that I was going at night, it was quite a boring drive to Georgia State University Clarkston Campus (GSUPC); however, on the way to GSUPC, I had the anxious feeling of not knowing what to expect from the play I was going to watch, SHE. SHE is a play that was written and devised by Shirlene Holmes and Anastasia Wilson. Eventually, I would reach the Fine Arts building at GSUPC with my anxiety at full throttle. Although my mother drove me to see the play, she did not stay to watch driving away while wishing me good luck. I then

Thornton Wilder, a Wisconsin native, is the writer of the Pulitzer Prize winner play Our Town. In Our Town, Wilder tells the story of a town in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, and the daily lives of the inhabitants. In the play, the author uses minimal props and scenery as well as including a main character known as the Stage Manager that has the ability to break the fourth wall, allowing him to talk to the audience. This factor of talking to the audience is a major component of making the public a part of the town. Throughout the play, there are many instances in which the Stage Manager uses various cues as well as dialogues to incorporate the audience and develop an intimate relationship to create a true sense of “our town”.

Furthermore, many significant techniques are found in the play. Irony is an important technique, which engages the reader in the process of linking the actions to each other. Irony can be seen in Ann and

The classic play, Romeo and Juliet written by the world renowned author, William Shakespeare has and always will be a favorite among countless people around the world. The tall tale describes the ghastly beauty of the adolescent so early in its development, extending Shakespeare’s study of the humiliations and glories of teens. This first-rate piece of literature is educated in a passel of high school classrooms , but the thought of not educating students the works of Shakespeare is anathema to many teachers. However, not all of them think about it that way. The main question is, should this tragic curtain-raiser be taught to adolescents in high school, specifically ninth graders? After much deliberation, the classic play should not be taught to high schoolers for the following reasons; the writing is difficult to comprehend, the storyline is puerile and it teaches negative morals. This essay will explain the reasons why adolescents in high school should not be taught Romeo and Juliet.

Intelligence, it is something admired, appreciated, often coveted. Along with recognized and acknowledged intelligence, an individual acquires the respect of colleagues and the veneration of those around them. Intelligence, EQ vs. IQ, emotion vs. intellect, knowledge vs. love; this is a conflict that is exemplified in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia. From a psychological perspective, this very conflict has such a dynamic impact on their characters that in the end, even though the characters seem to achieve an emotional connection with those around them, it’s strained by their inability to experience, empathize and even relate to typical human emotion.

A play serves as the author's tool for critiquing society. One rarely encounters the ability to transcend accepted social beliefs. These plays reflect controversial issues that the audience can relate to because they interact in the same situations every day. As late nineteenth century playwrights point out the flaws of mankind they also provide an answer to the controversy. Unknowingly the hero or heroine solves the problem at the end of the play and indirectly sends a message to the audience on how to solve their own problem. <br><br>Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekov both provide unique analysis on issues their culture never thought as wrong. In the play A Doll's House Ibsen tackles women's rights as a matter of importance being neglected.

When I first began directing, to me, the play was the thing. My mind was focused on the goings on of the stage with limited awareness beyond its borders. It seemed that dealing with the audience was somebody else’s job. If I directed a great play, I thought, people would come and like it. Job done. “Why this play now?” was a philosophical, intellectual question—but not something I really confronted in an educational setting.

Stella Adler, famous actress and acting teacher once stated that “the theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.” Woyzeck by Georg Büchner is a play that perfectly represents Adler’s view on theatre. The plot of the play revolves around a troubled lower class man named Woyzeck, who ultimately murders his lover, Marie. But it is not merely the plot that makes this play align with Adler’s view, rather, it is the naturalistic style of the Woyzeck. Naturalistic theatre examines the human psyche and how one is influenced by nature and nurture. Through Büchner’s use of plot structure and thought, Woyzeck will be directed in a manner that makes the audience realize that human behavior is not simply a byproduct of nature versus nurture, that there is indeed a third option: self-will.

with the power of the audience in the play as well as the story seems

What concepts, principles, or ideas that you have learned, do you think you will remember the most after you leave this class?