Noren Sprunt Character Analysis

All of the actors were believable and had great articulation and volume. Each character was great but there were only two who stood out from among the rest, Naz Edwards and Bryan Lark. Naz never lost her character. She stayed committed throughout her entire performance. The amount of dedication she gives to her craft is amazing and it shows throughout the play. Naz Edwards is a New York actress. She has performed on and off Broadway, in tours and regionally across the United States and Canada. Naz had arguably the hardest role in the entire play. She never cracked a smile, or never allowed her face to show any sympathy for anyone else. Bryan Lark, an up and coming actor gave the audience much needed laughter throughout the play. With this being only his second play with the Performance Network Theatre he did a fantastic job. Bryan and Naz were great assets to the

I was particularly struck by the acting of Gracie Sartin. Her fearless approach to so many elements of the play – whether it was being hit on the head with an ironing board, hitting another costar with the ironing board, or giving one of her characters (Villian) an accent - was incredibly interesting to watch. Despite the fact that she portrayed six different people, she embodied them so well that I did not see Gracie in them. I saw only the characters she was portraying. The other actors were also successful in that ability. I think that achievement, combined with the success of the way the time constraints were embraced, added greatly to the success of the play.

My favorite character in the play was Scout, played by Gwendolyn Timbrell, she achieved superb memorization of her lines, facial expression, and staying in character. The only character that stuck out to me was Teresa Smallwood who play Jean Louise. The night that I watched the performance she messed up multiple times, jumbling her words, but other than that I thought she did a respectable job narrating. I was thoroughly impressed by how well all of the children in the play did, However, I think they drew away attention from the other characters in the

My favorite character was the ballet teacher. The actress made great use of the stage and her props. I loved the way she swayed in her fur lined silk robe and how she used her faux cigarette. It really conveyed the life story of the character and made her stand out. It gives her an aura of strength but also a certain feeling of tragedy — as if she had always wanted to become a star. Her beat changes were very distinct throughout the play. Each line was

The book “Ugly” by Robert Hoge it is a inspiring, true story about, Robert, a boy who grew up in Brisbane, Australia, with a tumor the size of a tennis ball on his face and two deformed legs. Robert had four other brothers and sisters, who were all older. The story is the journey of Robert Hoge and his life with artificial legs and deformed face, and all the challenges he faced along the way.

When you think of a good life you definitely don’t think of Max Vandenburg. Max was a good Jewish man, he was just on a rough path. In his time staying with the Hubermanns, Max did change into a new person.

In Toni Morrison's short story "Recitatif", the story revolves around two girls, one white and the other black, and how their social status affects their way of life. The narrator, Twyla, has five significant instances in her life where she is in a setting with her childhood best friend, Roberta. When they first met at the orphanage, they disliked each other, but because both of them still had a parent to their name, they were seen as social outcasts to the other children of their orphanage. Through their social disgrace they became friends and helped each other out. As they grew up, their lives were distinctly different with Twyla living the life of a lower-middle class citizen while Roberta was living a lavish lifestyle, creating conflict between the two. In the end, there is a slight sense of reconcilement in that they clear up a misunderstanding of their past, but there is an open question to what had happened to an element of their past.

The play was also easy to follow because though there were only two actors portraying so many characters, the plot was relatively simple. The play was centered around a radio station and the individual character’s stories stemmed out from the station. This gave all the characters a common relation, which made the play easier to understand than if they all were connected in different ways. Additionally, the characters were extremely strong because of the actor’s ability to transition mannerisms, accents and costumes. For example, when Lauren Roos was playing the grandma she took tiny steps that made the audience laugh because it looked like she was moving slowly like an older person. Additionally, when Kevin Cavallaro was playing Didi Snavely, he completely changes his whole persona and transferred into her character extremely well. I thought that Lauren Roos and Kevin Cavallaro were both extremely comical and I cannot pick whom I liked more. I thought Lauren Roos proved that females can be successful in comedy because of her ability to make both male and female characters funny, despite the assumption that females cannot pull of

The author of Recitatif, Toni Morrison, is an acclaimed writer known for her fictional stories and her explorations within the black community. Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 was one of her most acclaimed accomplishments. Morrison’s American Midwest family had an unfathomable appreciation and love for black culture and showed this through there many traditions and storytelling. Recitatif, a fictional short story, was written in 1983.

Adel Muller was a glorious and noble german officer. Also the father of Alaric Muller. They’re complete opposites. Adel Muller was a muscular, intimidating, yet handsome man for his age. He embraced all the desired qualities of a soldier. Adel was loyal, bearing true to faith and allegiance in the correct order to the army and to the organization. He had respect, showing concern for and making an effort to check on the safety and well being of others, and treating people as they should be treated. He was selfless, putting the welfare of the nation, army, and subordinates before his own. Loyal, living up to army values, not lying, cheating, stealing, or just breaking any rule. And he had courage, showing physical and moral bravery constantly. He was one of the greatest Nazi officers in his city. Unlike Alaric.

The main characters of the play, Hannah and Martin, had strong and successful performances in terms of their body movements, chemistry, and portrayal of their characters. Ali Basalyga, the actress portraying Hannah, was excellent in demonstrating Hannah’s transition from an awkward, shy, and self-conscious young girl in the beginning of the play, to becoming dominant and powerful at the end of the play. While most of the actors did their characters justice, there were some minor faults that seemed to stick out like sore thumbs. In terms of vocal quality and articulation, for example, Basalyga definitely stuck out--her occasional fast speech and slurred words caused sentences to pass, unheard by the audience. Had she spoken slower at times, her role would have been more understandable and therefore, more powerful. I have seen other plays in the past, “The Glass Menagerie”, for example, in which Basalyga also portrayed the main character, and again, articulation proved to a problem for her. One character that did not add to the success of the production was Gertrude Jaspers, portrayed by Emily Paparazzo. Paparazzo’s soft tone of voice and perceived shyness to be on stage, made it virtually impossible to hear what she was saying for minutes at a time. Her movements on stage were awkward and

Toni Morrison’s short story, “Recitatif” is about two young girls, named Twyla and Roberta, who grow up in an Orphanage because their mothers were in no condition to properly take care of them. The main theme in the “Recitatif” is concentrating on racism. A very mind- grabbing event in the story is how the author never tells the race of the two girls. Morrison leaves class codes but not racial codes, as in the story Twyla states, “ It was one thing to be taken out of your own bed early in the mornings—it was something else to be stuck in a strange place with a girl from a whole other race” (pg 201) , even the girls do not mention which race the other is. Recitatif is a great story as it plays with the reader’s emotions and effectively makes the reader aware of the stereotypes and each races characteristics.

Olunde attempts to reveal to Jane the greatness of his father 's sacrifice for his peace and the peace of his own people, his father is going to commit suicide to save his community from destruction. However, Jane cannot understand the implication of that sacrifice which she regards as a ' 'barbaric custom ' ' or even ' 'feudalistic. ' ' Olunde 's long conversation with Jane reveals the arrogance, vulnerability, disintegration and hypocrisy of the English people. He expresses the terrible conditions of war he underwent during his stay in England. As a medical student there, Olunde has seen ' 'the West on its own grounds, complete in its wartime vulnerabilities. He attends to English soldiers wounded on World War II and has therefore

Emilie du Châtelet was a confident scientist in France in the nineteenth century who went against social norms to be able to live a life that fit her far better than that of the housewife that she was expected to live. Through her atypical life she was able to break boundaries and correct the theories of the greats of the time like Sir Isaac Newton. More specifically, this question was inspired by Emilie’s relationship with her daughter, Gabrielle, in the play. Gabrielle is just as strong willed and motivated as Emilie, meaning that the typical life expected of women at the time does not fit her, just like it did not fit her mother. At the end of Act 1, Gabrielle argues with her mother about the life that Emilie has forced her to take, one of an arranged marriage instead of study. Emilie had been so busy with her own life that she had proceeded to plan Gabrielle’s without even consulting her, just assuming that she would want the life that other girls did. Emilie had never meant to offend her daughter and had just been trying to help, but instead ending up preventing Gabrielle to live the life that she desired.

The play was well cast, the entire Bliss family did a great job showing how overly dramatic and deceitful the family had become. Each actor portrayed their character accurately; there were no standouts that didn’t match the character. Each visitor in the first act seemed to be feasible as far as the possibility of a relationship was concerned. All of the family members acted genuine. There was one actor who stood out as a perfect fit for his character. Taylor Rascher