Ray Shultz's Spring Awakening

Former President John F. Kennedy said, “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” Leadership is a quality found in many characters of writer. In Neal Shusterman’s Unwind, Connor is a main character that found direction and became a great leader. Unwind is a story that takes place in future America. The unwinding process takes place from the ages of thirteen to eighteen. During this time, kids are able to be unwound and harvested for their body parts. Kids will not die but they will live in a divided state. Connor is one of the main characters in Unwind. From the moment Connor was introduced, he was a ticking time bomb that could explode at anytime. As the story progressed, however, he learned to control these emotions,

This play is a great play because a lot of people can relate to it.The play is considered a drama. The play “was commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville and had its world premiere at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in March 1998.” This play has been revised twice throughout the years. The first revised version was in October 1998 and the second one that was revised was in October 1999. Then it

In the play A Raisin in the Sun, three generations of women are represented. Lena is the default head of household after her husband passes away. She believes, like most women of her time, that men should make the important decisions. Ruth is somewhere in between the two, is usually outspoken, and vocalizes her frustrations, yet aims to please her husband. She is willing to do whatever it takes to better the life her family. Beneatha is a young feminist college student who is not at all tolerant of society's unequal treatment and expectations of women. This play demonstrates the importance of how women's ideas have changed over time through the eyes of three generations.

There were two historical periods within the performance: Modern Era; “I Remember it Well” and “Bosom Buddies,” and after the Modern Era; “Secondary Character,” “Adelaide’s Lament,” “Bring Him Home,” “When You’re an Addams,” “It’s a Hard Knock Life,” “I Think I Got you Beat,” “Fifty Percent,” “Lily’s Eyes,” “A Musical,” and I am not sure for “Prologue/ Any Dreams Will Do”

As in the Fences play, that is the conflict of the contrasting characters between children and their parents based on their clothes, their movements and the music on the stage. Their parents spend priorities for families such as the caring for their children. They want their children to be safety, be blended and discreet in this feudal society. The strong passion of youth could not stop and prevent them from the protection of justice and toward the youth for the bright future. The same as Rose, Dolores, Henry´s mother impress her feeling after seeing her children go out every night in a zoot suit.

As an audience member in the play Spring Awakening I would say that the acting, directing, and design came together for a successful production and interpretation of this 19th century German Drama. First off, the majority of the actors showcase the Realism and Naturalism that the producer Frank Wedekind intended for this period piece. I would say the majority excelled because I was personally confused by the two adult leads having multiple roles. But once I caught onto what was happening I feel that it did not take away from the play as a whole. Later in class I learned that the play suggested that the adult leads should have multiple roles which helped me to understand the production. This is the director's choice to follow what is suggested

The play was written in 1945 - within a week of World War Two ending -

The University Playhouse’s recent production of Smoke on the Mountain incorporated conventions of Restoration and Modern theatre through a combination of representational and presentational elements. Conventions within the productions included the use of character types, a localized setting, and time appropriate costumes. These conventions reflect the influence of many movements from Restoration and Modern theatre including Realism, Naturalism, Symbolism, and Expressionism. The musical nature of the production reflected elements of the American Modernist Musical also.

Spring Shorts is a collection of short plays by John Cariani, Craig Pospisil, Don Nigro, Paul Dooley, and Winnie Holzman and was directed by Shezwae Powell. The production took place at Mt. San Jacinto College’s lab theatre at the Menifee Valley Campus which provided a black box space and the props were good at changing the setting of the play from a living room, outside on a ledge, at the Super Center, in an apartment, in the kitchen, and more! The design aspects of scenery, costume, lighting, and sound were good. The overall script was written nicely, the characters were very relatable, the point of view was from a third person point of view, allowing the audience to accept the storyline and really participate in it.

The roles of the women in the drama are significant because of the way they shape the story and help the reader understand the nature of one of the strangest events in human history. Throughout the novel, women are portrayed in many different ways. Some are shown as being good and moral people while others the complete opposite. Arthur Miller's treatment of women in this play show women as weak beings who give into their husbands. Each women in the drama plays a significant role in showing the different archetypes there were among women especially Mary Warren, Elizabeth Proctor, and Abigail Williams. In addition, Kohlberg’s Moral Stages are six developmental stages of human moral reasoning which can tie into the view in which we have of the women in the play.

By immediately questioning the morals of the society of the past, it shows how prejudice is carried on throughout time, as the characters in the play display such prejudice towards gays and women: (P22) Jared: “He’s a fag, they reckon” and (P25) Ricko: “Girls can’t balance right. Their centre of gravity is all up the shit.” This questions the audience, which are teenagers in particular, on their morals and attitudes towards these subjects, as the only way to stop prejudice in the future, is to stop the influence that creates it in today’s

There are lessons for the modern audience to learn from the characters in the play especially about gender bias/

(For the purposes of this essay, I will be focusing on the 1986 West End production instead of the 1988 Broadway production.)

play was outrageous and not accepted. The image of women in plays and stories at the time were

During the time in which the play took place, society frowned upon women asserting themselves. Women were expected to play a role in which they supported their husbands,