One Less Lonely Girl Play Analysis

“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.

March of 2017 brought snow, rain showers, and a great musical to Hillsdale College’s campus. This semester, the Hillsdale College theatre department performed a magnificent rendition of the classic 1950’s play, Kiss Me Kate. Thanks to my core class’s requirements, I was blessed with the golden opportunity to see a marvelous musical that brought me much joy.

The theatrical work being discussed in this critique is the 2016 revival of the broadway musical She Loves Me. This production was directed by Scott Ellis and produced by the Roundabout Theatre Company. The first revival performance of She Loves Me took the stage on February 19th, 2016 with the final performance being on July 10th, 2016. This romantic comedy is describing the story of two pen pals who fall in love through countless letters , addressing each other as “ Dear Friend “. Set in 1930s Hungary , mainly taking place in and outside of Mr.Maraczek’s Parfumerie . Amalia Balash and Georg Nowack, work in the shop together, strongly disliking each other, but coincidentally are the two letter correspondents. When the “Dear Friends” are finally supposed to meet at the Cafe Impériale, Georg realising that his pen-pal is

Anh Do’s family is loving and supportive, yet many different family situations are shown throughout the text. How important is ‘family’ in The Happiest Refugee, and what do you think the novel has to say about the way families ought to be?

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of his most popular plays involving fairies, mischief, and love. The play features a play-within-a-play that has an eccentric acting troupe playing the parts. Together, they hope to perform “‘The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe,’” (1.1.10-11). Of all the characters in the play and movie, Francis Flute, a member of the acting troupe, is the most rounded character because the audience can see him grow, he exhibits traits of comedy and drama, and he ultimately has an inconsistent personality that makes him seem real.

Subterranean Homesick Blues Again written by Dennis Reardon, a comedy yet horrific play was about a tour guide who messes with the heads of 2 touring couples who are always disagreeing, and is placed in a famous Caverns. Right towards the end directs the readers into a very dark and serious setting/atmosphere. I believe the purpose is to be aware and pay attention.

The movie, Girl, Interrupted, displays Susanna Kaysen’s eighteen-month stay at a mental institute in the 1960s. This film was an adaptation of a book based on a true story of the main character and author Susanna Kaysen. Susanna was checked into Claymore, a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts, after chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. At first, Susanna denies this blatant attempt at suicide and constantly struggles with uncertainty of her thoughts and emotions. Although Girl, Interrupted exhibits several mental disorders one of the most prevalent disorder of this film is Susanna’s Borderline Personality Disorder. This film depicts majority of the signs and symptoms of a person with Borderline Personality. As stated in the textbook, “the lives of persons with borderline personality are marked by instability. Their relationships are unstable, their behavior is unstable, their emotions are unstable, and even their images of themselves are unstable” (Larsen and Buss 593). Susanna’s romantic relationships are extremely unstable and she frequently engages in casual sex. She jumps from one guy to another in a matter of few weeks. One scene that establishes this the most is when her boyfriend at the time comes to visit her at Claymore and expresses his true feelings for her and she instantly withdraws. He asked her to go to Canada with him and she turns him down immediately. She also kisses Lisa who she befriends at the mental institute, displaying a switch of

Star Girl was a play conveying the story of a young alien girl, Star Girl, Naomi Garay, and her encounter with an Earth family and with her family’s archenemy, Dr. Horribilis, Samantha Cox. Star Girl was directed by Jim Anderson and written by Janet Farr Swart. Although this play is aimed towards a younger audience, members of all age groups could learn a thing or two from this story. Star Girl consisted of a dynamic character set. Throughout the progression of the story, character after character sees a change in their original way of thinking.

In this play all the characters feel trapped. But Travis feels trapped in the house. The reason why is because when he tries doing something he is not aloud to do it. Also his parents have no money so he can not go out and do stuff. His parents are always fighting about the money and what they are going to do with it. That is why Travis feels trapped.

The Doctor in Spite of Himself is a play that I had previously studied in France like many of Molière’s plays. I thought that it was ironic for me to go see the play for the first time in theatre in the United States. I was really looking forward to hear how the actors would pronounce the characters’ French names, which are rather exotic even for me. I think that because I had previously studied Molière’s work in class, I was expecting this play to be performed in a much more traditional style. I was a little disconcerted at first when seeing the actors performing a more modern version than what I had in mind. I ended up liking what Arne Zaslove has done with the play. In my opinion, modernizing it a

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.

I have never been involved with the production of any kind of play, so my partner and I decided that we would watch multiple versions of this play. There was Kenneth Branagh’s version which was sort of lack characteristic that we thought would be suiting for our “soap opera” themed performance.

Nina Freeman is an indie developer that has been making these short little autobiographical vignettes or how she refers to them based on a true story game. Some are pretty silly and other are serious but most meet in the middle of those two but they are all honest about the topics that they are covering without sugar coating it. One of her most notable game that just went absolutely went viral last year is a game called How Do You Do It. Where you play as a young version of Nina and are mashing these dolls together to trying to figure out how sex works.

In the ‘Frogs’ and ‘Wasps’ written by the “eminently best” comedian of the fifth century, Aristophanes, we see he utilized humour to exact the important message that Athens is corrupt, and on the verge of chaos. The Athenian audience would expect to be thrust into a world of humour in the City Dionysia, somewhere parallel to their own (e.g. the Athenian jury in the ‘Wasps’, and the failings of the government in ‘Frogs’). It is vital, then, that Aristophanes conveys his political and social views through slapstick, farce, and caricature to interest the audience. This is an important component in both plays as the audience is able to simultaneously accept his diplomatic views whilst being entertained. After all his main point for producing his plays were to produce something with a “little fable, with a moral”.

There are many characteristics that make up a comedy. Characteristics such as mistaken identity, battle of the sexes, and jumping to conclusions are what set the comedic story apart from the tragedy. Within a comedy, no matter how much fault, and dismay may appear within the story, there always seems to be the classic ending of “…and they all lived happily ever after…” Comedies capture the viewer with a sense of compassion and love for the characters in the story. Each character has their own essence, to which they pertain a flaw of some sorts, which the audience can relate to. With the relation to characters there is defiantly a certain interest that is grabbed by the actors, which sucks the audience into the