State fair is a play about a family in Iowa that go to visit the state fair the story takes place in 1946. The main characters are Father Abel, Mother Melissa, Daughter Margy, and Son Wayne. All of them have different expectations for the fair. Margy is confused about what she wants to do with her fiancé after they are married, her fiancé was not able to go to the fair because he was busy, but Margy met a reporter named Pat. Pat and Margy spend the entire day together. Wayne meets a girl named Emily at the ring toss booth, Wayne starts to like Emily and he goes to watch the Starlight Dance Meadow which Emily is the star in the dance. Abel enters blue boy his pig in the fair and he has to go to tend to blue boy because he seems to be sick. …show more content…
Melissa is also wishing that she wins the mincemeat competition. Melissa is nervous for the competition because Edwin Metcalfe always wins first prize. Later that day Wayne attends a party with Emily, and they spend the rest of night together. All while they are together Margy and Pat sit on a hillside talking as the sun is coming up. Pat asks Margy if she really plans to marry Harry, the man she is engaged to. Margy suggests that she probably will. Pat asks Margy to marry him and she doesn’t answer right away but the next night they go on the roller coaster and she tells Pat she couldn’t marry anyone but Pat. McGee mentions that Emily will be singing the song the next night in Chicago. Wayne is surprised to hear from McGee that Emily is leaving for Chicago that night because Emily didn't tell him. Emily finally comes out and Wayne tries to convince her to go home to the farm with him instead of going to Chicago with the band. Emily says she can't and starts to confess something to Wayne, but runs away crying. McGee explains to Wayne that Emily is already married, although the marriage is unhappy, and that Emily didn't want to tell Wayne and spoil
Starting off, I love this play, it was hilarious but serious at the same time, it had this dark twist and I believe it was tragic comedy, it had the whole audience captivated and I felt like the message of the play was meet with everyone in the room. There was moments that happen throughout the play that explain those dark twisted moments that made people laugh but didn’t realize the deeper meaning to it: Sam, is Carrie little sister and she has so much energy, and when Carrie and Molly fight and they start yelling at each other, she will sit down and keep distance from them and starts naming state birds, for me I felt like the fighting made Sam uncomfortable so in order to cope with it, she names state birds to stir her concentration to something else. A lot of tragic moments happen to the characters, and all got a moment to express how they felt and how they are handling with hard moments of their life’s, specially Carrie, where there would be sudden scenes where the spotlight would hit her and she gets a moment to talk about certain things she feels of the death of her father.
The Fair, with its mix of East and West and everything in between, became a microcosm of the country that was building it. In it, you see all the conflicts that were going on in the country at the time. Probably the most obvious is the labor that built the fair. At this point in history, the working class of the country, and indeed the world, were slowly, but unstoppably moving toward unionization, fairer working conditions and change that is very much the same as the working class of today. You also saw the unchecked, without government regulated capitalism, and the very strong personalities of the men who ran the fair. In my opinion, it was the personalities of the leaders of the fair, as much as anything, that resulted in its amazing pace and scale of construction being pulled off. Burnham is a
Larson uses a flashback to take the reader back and provide a brief description of the fair and what made the fair so special. Larson also mentions the evil and darkness that shadowed the greatness of the fair. The author sets an organized sequence of events that surround the devil and the architect during the fair. The chapters spring back and forth between the lives of Daniel Burnham and H.H. Holmes. The story is constantly interrupted with flashbacks and quotes from Larson's research that form a sort of echo of his thoughts on events before or after they happen in the book while depicting the two men's stories. Larson forbore the many dark events yet to come in the prologue of the
2. “No one could bear the idea of the White City lying empty and desolate. A Cosmopolitan writer said, "Better to have it vanish suddenly, in a blaze of glory, than fall into gradual disrepair and dilapidation. There is no more melancholy spectacle than a festal hall, the morning after the banquet, when the guests have departed and the lights are extinguished.” (pg 59) This quote shows just how important the fair was to the dreary city of Chicago. It seems that everyone was putting their faith and every scrap of love into the fair. Everyone wanted it to turn out perfect, everyone thought it was going to rock the world, and it did, just not in the way people hoped. Once
Larson uses figurative language to compare the exposition to a “hurricane.” The use of a metaphor to explain the similarities between how immense and deranged the fair has become to a natural disaster that literally destroys everything in its path shows just how important and extravagant this event is for the town of Chicago and the United States as a whole. Readers get insight into how overwhelming and chaotic the making of the World’s Fair is especially for the people directly involved. Readers acquire a feel for how a seemingly amazing event can have an exhausting and draining impact on the people who have to put it together. The World’s fair presents a challenge
State Fair’s setting takes place in post-World War II Iowa; where the small-town Frake family attends the annual Iowa State Fair during the summer. The film opens up introducing the characters of the Frake family: Wayne, the son, Margy, the daughter, Abel, the father, and Melissa, the mother. The family is preparing for their annual trip to the summer Iowa State Fair with Abel preparing his prized pig, Blue Boy. Melissa is seen preparing for the state fair cook off making her famous pickles and mincemeat. However, Melissa is struggling with the
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.
Has there ever been a time in your life that you wanted to do something but you couldn't because a parent or a supervisor said no? I know I have. So did Jem and Scout in the book To Kill A Mockingbird. It is quite easy to look back and find a time in your life and say “that was so unfair.” Life isn't always fair. Jem and Scout learned this lesson many times throughout the book. Some of the many ways were when atticus wouldn’t let them shoot their new bb guns, another was when Jem had to read to Mrs.Dubose even though he really didn't want to, and again when Jem didn't want Tom to go to jail but he had to.
During their conference with Alexi Darling, the Buzzline supervisor, Joanne sees Maureen flirting with another woman. Outside, after being scolded by Joanne, Maureen proposes to her, and Joanne accepts. Forward to their engagement party, where Maureen flirts with yet another woman. Angry, Joanne threatens to leave her, while Maureen becomes angry at Joanne for "making" her be too monogamous They then walk out on each other. Benny has repossessed all of Roger's and Mark's things, but it is revealed that Mimi later had dinner with Benny and he had changed his mind. Roger finds out, and believes that she is cheating on him with Benny. Mimi resumes her drug habit and falls into a state of despair, while Angel gets progressively sicker and eventually dies
The fair is a narrative poem that explores the sensual bombardment of a travelling circus by recreating the sights, sounds, and smells visitors experience. The poem is split into two parts. The first, an atmospheric description of the thrill and excitement of the rides and the effects on the senses. Whilst the second takes a dramatic turn to the worst when a horrible fate befalls a poor young girl in a field beyond the fair.
“Sure Thing” is a Drama surrounding two character. The two character go through a series of scenarios in order to obtain the best outcome. The two characters are named Bill and Betty. As the drama progresses, these characters reveal to be dynamic and round. Bill and Betty are motivated to accomplish their goal. The characters’ goals, motivation, and type will describe the characters.
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
The attachment “Murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed america” to the title hardly does the novel justice. Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City, a nonfiction novel that surrounds the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, also known as The World’s Columbian Exposition. The novel follows the lives of two real men, Daniel Burnham, the architect who builds the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and H.H. Holmes, the serial killer who exploits the fair to find his victims. Many new inventions were introduced at the fair, such as Juicy Fruit gum, the Ferris Wheel, and many other novel ideas that impacted the lives of many people for generations. The beautiful fair Burnham creates provides the perfect distraction and lure for Holmes’ activities. In his novel The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson suggests that good and evil coexist in the world by using charged language, imagery and juxtaposition to show although people view the fair as a perfect dreamland immune to evil, it still lurks outside in the dark, influencing the rest of the world.
With all of the action and drama the State of Play packs in, it is easy to feel yourself getting consumed into the movie. State of Play tells the story of a journalist, Cal McAffrey (Russell Crow) who is investigating the death of a woman an old friend of his (Ben Affleck) knew. With the help of a young blogger (Rachel McAdams),
The center I chose to observe was the dramatic play center which is a kitchen. I chose this center because because it's a great way to observe children. The purpose of the dramatic play center is to help develop social, emotional and oral language skills. It gives children a chance to assign roles, self regulate when having to take turns and during all of this children are developing language skills.