The Play That I Attended Was Rabbit Hole

A major theme in this play would be pain and injuries. This happens many times throughout the play and in each scene either

Gow uses tragedy to express the effect the grief and loss The Vietnam War had on the families of soldiers. Throughout the start of the play, Gow portrayed the character of Coral as depressed. In Act 2 Scene 3 Gow alludes to The Vietnam War, and the effect it had on the families when Roy (Corals husband) says, “We are not the first people in the history of the world to lose a son in war.” To allow the modern audience to understand the effect that The Vietnam War had Gow portrayed Coral as depressed. Throughout Act 2 Scene 3 a juxtaposition is used with Coral continuously being referred to as “Kim Novak”. Today’s Australian audience would not know who Kim Novak is. Kim Novak was a gorgeous American Actress in the 1950’s. Harry alludes to an old Chinese phrase, “The Chinese don’t believe in being too upset when someone dies. That would mean you thought they’d died too soon and what they’d done up till then didn’t amount to much.” in Act 4 Scene 1, when referring to Tom’s illness; cancer of the blood. Gow uses this phrase as a way of explaining to the modern audience the beliefs that the people in the 1960’s stood by.

The play Heartbreaker is a fictitious story done by Michael Golamco. It features two main characters, Vithy, who is a sixteen year old teenager and her elder sister Ra who is aged twenty two years. The play takes place in a solemn setting down in a small apartment bedroom. The room does not contain a lot of things; it is empty except for some few basic properties that make a bedroom. They events of the play take place at Long Beach in the California region. Michael Golamco has used the story in bringing out loneliness as a theme in the play and its consecutive results in the people affected by it.

Herrick shows that a relationship has ‘centred’ Billy. His life has direction, routine and meaning. Billy’s identity at first was seen as a loner, he was isolated and a rebel. His mother was absent and his relationship with his father was intimidating. The lack of connection to family extends to Old Bill, whose daughter and wife died, and to Freya and Danny, who do not have the guidance of responsible adults. Herrick symbolises his disconnection and loneliness in ‘I didn’t go inside for hours./I looked through the back window/watching him/reading the paper/in front of the television/as if nothing happened’. Billy’s sense of belonging allows him to reforms his identity. Herrick shows this by juxtaposing Billy eating like a hobo in the first person narration in ‘And wait for the family of five to leave. / I can see dessert/ waiting for me’ and later eating like a refined mature adult via the descriptive language in ‘with a white tablecloth/and napkins/ and proper cutlery and plates.’ Comparatively, Freya grows up after Danny helps her deal with her miscarriage. This highlights that a person’s identity is defined by their connection to others. Both composers show an understanding of each other, allow them to nourish one another.

Upon arrival at the mental facility Ethel Savage meets her house companions, who later leaves a big indention on her heart as well as her life. There’s Jeffery (Mark DiNovo), a war veteran and is mentally scarred; Florence (Hayley Hunt) who has never emotionally recovered from lost her son but carries a doll that she pretends is John Thomas, her son; Fairy May (Shelby Grace Miller) a happy spirited girl who seeks everyone’s approval and love; Hannibal (Dick White) a former statistician who believes he is talented in playing the violin and is afraid of the outside world; and Mrs. Paddy (Sandy Steffen) older woman who refuses to speak to anyone, that likes to paint and cut off the lights at just the right times throughout the play. Also there at the mental facility is Dr. Emmett (Sean Riehm) young psychiatric doctor who takes pride in caring for the patients and their safety and Miss Wilhelmina (Leilani Phinney) a nurse committed to the patients and who is also married to Jeffery, who doesn’t remember her or that he is

Broward College, Central Campus Theater in building 6, on Sunday, the 1st of November. The play was performed by Broward College students. The type of stage was Proscenium stage with extended apron. I thought it was a little bit small, but it did not show as a problem. The pre-show was dark and a feel of suspense. I felt excited to see how everything would play out. The play takes place down south of Chicago in the 1950’s.

She wants to be recognized as a doctor by virtually everybody, and she does not care about the essence of every visitation. The play uses a number of characters who have different emotional and intelligence orientations to make the protagonist, Vivian, realise that she has a negative character and gives her an emotional role model in Susie.

In the past, mischievous boy, now the man, could not find his place in life and continues to roll along from one scam to another. Now, he is being chased by mobsters from whom he stole the money, and he is in mortal danger from which he had taken refuge in his mother's house. Louie knows his mother the "iron women," but realizes that her foreign callousness is a heightened sense of duty and the result of the hard struggle for survival. At the same time, Uncle Louie is a kind and good-natured with his nephews and gives them that direct communication that they are lacking and all the inhabitants of the "cold house." The boys are supporting him too, even Jay at the risk of life helps him to get away from his pursuers. But Bella is more impressive. 36-year-old women with the immediacy of a little girl and with desires of an adult woman. The conflict between her and mother reveals generational conflict in this play. In this case, a harsh mother ruthless control of a daughter’s personality suppressed and deprived Bella’s opportunity to grow up. The scene of their explanations is written at a very high emotional level. This fragment produced a deep impression that gives a very high grade of the play. But the final look “natural,” in which Bella is belated, but “becomes free.”

The Theme I will be exploring in this play will be family. In this play you come across many scenes that are more focused on the family getting together and being

The main theme of the play is to not fall prey to emotions and hasty suspicions. They are a bad combination and will ruin your life. If you ever get one of these you should try not to get the other or you are in trouble. So if you are ever having doubts about someone ask them, don’t listen to your friends. They might not know the truth or the whole

The elements of a play are setting, irony, plot, characters, and theme, which will be discussed in the essay.

Theme – the reason behind why the playwright wrote the play. “Patterns of life”, a slice of reality.

Kate is the only person in the play that never lets go of the thought of Larry. She brings an essence of sadness of the death of her one son. Chris tries to tell Kate, “I’ve let him go. I’ve let him go a long [time ago].” It has been a couple of years since the death of her son, and she has yet to put it behind her. It is tougher on others because of her unrelenting thought of Larry. Chris and Ann were in love before they even knew it. They made a plan of getting married but the thought of telling Kate keeps their decision at bay. The plan was for Ann and Larry to get married after his return. Kate insists the proposed marriage will occur. Chris will also never get approval from his mother, thus making his marriage obsolete. Kate also greatly affects her husband Joe. She keeps Joe thinking about the twenty one soldiers that he killed because of his defective parts. Joe tries to forgive himself for the terrible mistake he caused years back. Kate reminds Joe that her son Larry could have been one of those soldiers in the sky. Joe tries to assure himself that Larry was never on one of the planes flown with the damaged engines he made, but Kate keeps pounding the suggestion into his head. The thought of killing his own son tore apart Joe’s mental stability. Through Kate’s unyielding remembrance of her long lost son, she started to greatly affect those around her.

In the next scene, Halie meets with the community minister to talk about a statue for her dead son Ansal, which is somewhat disturbing. She is dressed in a black vale, extended black gloves, and a long black dress. It seems that she is going to a funeral for her lost son, instead of going to lunch and chatting with the minister. In addition, the reader hears about the last son, Bradley, who has had a serious accident with a chain saw where he cuts his leg off. Not much is know about Bradley in the beginning of the play except of his amputation, and also that he is the younger of the two sons who has a fake leg. Before the climax of this play, the reader should be able to see that something is wrong with this family. In this play, there is not one event that stands out as being completely peculiar, but there are clever hints that allow the reader to know that there is far more to this family.

The only other dynamic character is Laird, her little brother. At the beginning of the story he is very young and obeys his big sister, no matter what she tells him to do; at the end, he too has grown up somewhat and no longer accepts her authority unquestioningly. He puts an end to their bedtime singing ceremony when he tells her, "You sound silly," and tells on her when she lets the horse escape. Laird is the only character beside Henry Bailey that is given a name. His name, a Scotch form of the title "Lord," demonstrates his importance to the family, as the only boy, and his place in society, which will have more respect for him than for his sister. Yet, in the story it is evident that the narrator is just as good a worker as her brother-far better, because of her advantage in age. It is only because she is a girl that her mother expects her to be a help inside the house, not outside of it. The other characters are the narrator's father, her mother, and the hired hand, Henry Bailey. Henry is someone whom the children admire for his "ability to make his stomach growl at will, and for his laughter, which was full of high whistlings and gurglings and involved the whole faulty machinery of his chest," and for other characteristics that adults might find vulgar, but that are wondrous and exciting to the children. The father is a creative, inventive man and a hard worker, who keeps his thoughts to himself but, in the narrator's opinion, can be depended upon. The mother is a