Tarzan Play Review

The audience is seated, the lights dim, and all of a sudden, through wild anticipation, the music cues as a notification that the show is about to begin. Theater is a creative outlet for the soul to paint a picture towards showcasing a short story. This past weekend, I attended a play at Crabpot Players Theater to observe a parody of one of Shakespeare’s most famous pieces, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As a whole the play was fairly decent, but there were a few minor issues that held the piece back. It is officially time to analyze the good, the bad, and the ugly.

On December 1, our class went to Weiberg Theater, in Frederick, Maryland. It was presented by Chamber Theater productions and the name of the play was Encore. The theater itself had a very nice interior, but I didn’t like the exterior. The inside of the theater was very well decorated and the designs on the walls and ceilings were very detailed and . However, like I mentioned, the outside was not so appealing with boring cement walls. Also, the audience was not very polite, and I didn’t like the bathrooms. I wouldn’t recommend seeing a show there. I have definitely seen better at different locations.

The most successful aspect of the performance for me were the scene changes. I found that the rotation of the blackboard, center stage, where the actors were able to stoop beneath it in order to enter and exit the stage, was an effective touch to this

Disney’s nineteen ninety-nine film, Tarzan is based of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s novel; Tarzan of the Apes. Tarzan has had many adaptions made from it over the years that range from comical to more serious tones. Thus, I thought it would be a good film to analyze. Despite it being a little outside the ten-year range, I felt that Disney’s adaption of Tarzan is a timeless classic. The movie takes place in a jungle somewhere in Africa, set between the late eighteen and early nineteen hundreds.

There was definitely enough lighting for the audience to see what was happening on stage. At times the lights were turned off to change the set. The lighting was also used at times to basically blind the audience so they would not see what was happening at times. It was all pulled off flawlessly. The make-up used during the performance looked very natural.

Through its dynamic directing and acting the show captured the audience and took us to the 1920s City of Chicago. All performs in the production were wearing costumes of black color and the style in the 1920s, along with a simple orchestra in the background, this made clear the setting in which the story takes place. The production is unlike others in that the whole production is made of many smaller simpler acts based of the theater genre called “vaudeville acts”.

The inspirational play titled Amazing Grace has done an incredible job at capturing the attention of all age groups and backgrounds. On July 22, 2015, I had the privilege to attend this production with my fellow EOF classmates, student staff, and the Rutgers School of Nursing faculty. This was an unforgettable experience because it was my first time attending a professional Broadway Show. The play surprisingly caught my attention from the minute it began. From that moment on, I was not able to take my eyes off the stage. Typically, I cannot continuously sit for more than an hour without getting up to stretch but amazingly I sat through the entire play, even during the intermission. The production’s outstanding effort was able to take the audience

Before I set out to find performances to write this paper about, I wanted to make sure that I was experiencing something entirely new and foreign to my long list of plays and performances that I have already seen. I was fortunate enough to attend two new shows that I had not seen before. The first performance was at the Dietrich Theater at Sierra College where I saw Sierra College Theatre Arts’ production of I Never Saw Another Butterfly, written by Celeste Raspanti and directed by Debra Hammond. The second was Little Shop of Horrors: The Musical, written by Howard Ashman and directed by Steve Gold and Mike Mechanick, performed by Rocklin Community Theatre at the Finnish Temperance Hall in Rocklin. Both performances offered a unique and inviting

Two weekends ago, my boyfriend and I decided to visit the Dalton Little Theatre in downtown Dalton, Georgia. The cast was showing Mama Don’t Fly, directed by Karen Keith. The play was at seven o’clock on a Friday night, so I did not expect the younger crowd to be present. Once we entered the theater and purchased two tickets, we were ushered to our seats by one of the actors performing in the play that night. As he led us to our seats he gave us tidbits of information about the play, which was a pleasant surprise. I’ve visited other theaters in the past and this center had the best sense of hospitality out of them all. The seating area was significantly smaller than I expected, the whole area contained under fifty seats. The majority of the audience was over the age of forty, so I felt a little out of place. The play seemed to be written for an older audience, so the intended crowd was reached.

Adventure novels are highly controlled and contained narrative form, while also containing writing of excess and exaggeration. This is evident in Burroughs’ language and writing style. Tarzan is written to be straightforwardly linear and literal with no room for interpretations. It’s wordy and repetitious, which could be due to the fact that pulp fiction writers were paid by the length of their stories, but the short sentence lengths used to describe action is a key element of identifying a text for the adventure genre (Bartlett, 2017; Easthope, 1991; Cawelti, 1976)). This literal telling of action can be shown through the telling of Tarzan’s battle with Bolgani, the huge gorilla:

In the 1999 Disney Film Tarzan was boy growing up within a family of gorillas. Tarzan was not accepted by the leader of the gorillas Kerchak so from a boy he tried to build himself up to prove himself on this journey he meets Jane Porter and her father. Tarzan saves Jane from baboons attacking her and immediately they start to fall for each other. This is different from the except from the original story where Tarzan saves Jane from a ex-chief gorilla name Terkoz. Terkoz at first wants to kill Jane but instead has a change in “mood” and takes her as a prize. Tarzan eventually saves Jane and at first they are attracted similar to Disney movie. However, after Tarzan and Jane kiss Jane is repulsed by Tarzan this part surprised me because

John Clayton, was born in the jungles of equatorial Africa, he was the son of, John and Alice Clayton,Adopted as a baby by mona Kala after the death of his parents, Clayton is called Tarzan (white monkey, in the language of the Apes) and is raised without knowing their human condition. Years pass. Feeling alienated from the other monkeys for their physical differences, he finds the old hut of his parents. Tarzan discovers the existence of others like him in books, in the soon learns to read them. One day, returning from a visit to the cabin, he is attacked by a large gorilla. Although he remains terribly wounded in the fight, Tarzan manages to kill the gorilla with the knife of his father. As it grows, Tarzan becomes an excellent hunter, causing envy Kerchak, the leader of the monkeys, which finally attacks. Tarzan kills Kerchak and takes his place

Many studies show that Tarzan is a significant figure in the past and today. He represents and symbolizes many aspects of the past. Although he may be important, he also has his flaws and issues. Tarzan is a being that has captured the hearts of many from his existence. Tarzan first appeared in the depths of the jungle. He was adopted by a family of apes and lived as one of them. He lacked the physical strength in comparison to his kind, but he had the intelligence that they lacked. Tarzan is a man like no other proven through his past and present adaptations.

This passage of the book, Tarzan of the Apes, is about Terkoz becoming a “cruel and capricious” king of the tribe. Tarzan told the apes to dismiss anyone who is abusing their power as a king. Like the apes were told, four or more apes kicked Terkoz out of their tribe. Frustrated, Terkoz was roaming around the forest, trying to express his anger to anything. As he was strolling through the jungle, he saw two female humans, Jane Porter and Esmeralda. Terkoz snatched up Jane, while Esmeralda fainted from the sight of Terkoz. His goal was to take Jane to the tribe, because they allow women assistance. Tarzan heard Jane’s screaming as she was taken further to the forest. Tarzan and Terkoz bumped into each other and fought for Jane. Tarzan won the

Growing up as a child in America I was always easily amused by cartoons that played on the television during the early 2000’s and late 1999’s. By far one of my most watched movies was Tarzan, which sometimes played during the weekends on the Disney channel, it’s very much entertaining to watch this old version of Tarzan directed by W.S. Van Dyke. In the film Tarzan “the Ape Man”, Jane Parker derives to Africa to visit her father, who was in a pursuit for ivory, Tarzan captures Jane and once the preliminary terror has worn off, Jane apprehends that she adores Tarzan and that jungle life suits her. This take on the modern day Tarzan opened my eyes to a much more realistic perspective of race perception with the sociological abnormality of behavior mixed in one. It’s highly unrealistic, however to see a white man grow up in jungle exhibiting masculinity characteristic intertwined with Ape behavior, but this is very much the central plot focus of the short film. A character must first and foremost be able to identify themselves with their surroundings, but most importantly within themselves as well, this film displays a broad mixture of cultural American imperialism and like every other film previously viewed throughout the course, shows the predominant race as being the white individuals while Blacks are being frowned upon and in the film’s case, taken another look at. The opening of the film also leaves one to assume that African Americans were principally treated as