On February 18, 2017, I attended a play production at the Bean Brown Theatre located at Shelton State Community College. The name of the production was The Real Queen of Hearts Ain’t Even Pretty. As a spectator of the play, with no foreknown knowledge of its content, I enjoyed the play. It had many comedic components. Within The Real Queen of Hearts Ain’t Even Pretty, there are elements of both art and entertainment. One element of art in the production is the overall portrayal of the beauty show, the Queen of Hearts. The beauty show is considered a work of art because it allows the contestants to depict what they consider beautiful. Throughout the whole play, the element of entertainment surrounds the play because it gives the audience …show more content…
At this point in the play, you also learn more underlying problems of all the characters; for example, Paula’s struggle with bulimia. As the play concludes, Cass and Paula develop their own feelings about Sherri Lee and gravitate towards her instead of Liz, whom they leave alone at the end. In the production, The Real Queen of Hearts Ain’t Even Pretty, I believe the most important character is Liz Nichols. She serves as the antagonist of the play against Sherri Lee Speer. Liz uses her sense of power to shape Cass into her own shadow, as well as form how Cass and Paula feel about Sherri Lee. The overlying theme of The Real Queen of Hearts Ain’t Even Pretty is struggling importance. Throughout the play, each character shares their struggle of importance or they either share what they do to remain important or even at times relevant. For Sherri Lee Speers, she shares with the other girls how she changes her personality each time she moves to another area to mimic another girl from her previous location The diction within the play was very strong and understandable. The actors were sure to enunciate even while mimicking, or when Sherri Lee used accents to dictate a southern
Sammy is a male chauvinist at the beginning of the story. While working, Sammy sees three girls that enter the store in bathing suits. He is so distracted by them that he cannot remember if he rang up a box of crackers or not. As it turns out, he did ring them up, a fact that his customer, “a witch about fifty,” lets him know quickly and loudly (“A & P”). Queenie becomes the central focus of Sammy 's attention as he collects and provides details like the exact shade of her hair color and the condition of her bathing suit. He described.
To begin, important theme that runs through the novel is the idea strong female characters like Taylor and Lou Ann. Furthermore, Taylor does not care about a man in her life and tries her best to do everything in her
Unlike Phil, she never tells a lie or says a harsh word about anyone. The character of Queenie is less developed-she is only shown though the narrator's eyes as she walks through the supermarket with her two friends. However, she still represents something that Sammy is not: she is a leader and she is blithely unconventional; she is a challenge to the status quo. When Sammy sees the girls he comments
Many, if not all, plays are written to evoke thoughts from people in the audience. Through their scripts, authors deliver messages about their opinions on various issues ranging from gender roles to class ranks. These messages are developed to provoke thoughts and questions from people who experience performances. In the play Rome Sweet Rome, the Q Brothers Collective use both new and old theatrical techniques to make parallels between the Roman and United States governments by addressing issues involving women’s roles in society, class rank, and homosexuality. The play uses methods both similar and different to other classic plays to deliver a message that is relatable to issues in today’s world. This message is enhanced through the use of acting styles, set design, costumes, music, and lighting.
In one story, the the Queen
The entertainers gave their characters genuine life through their gestures, attitude and charm. Even the way the voices led one to believe that the characters were actually presenting their own thoughts and ideas, not those of fictional characters. During the play, the voices of the performers were quite audible, excepting certain musical presentations when the lyrics of the songs were at points nearly indiscernible. Even with consideration given to this technical glitch, the sound quality was quite agreeable and the songs enjoyable. The voices of the performers were strong
Queenie is important to the story's conflict and theme because she creates them. Queenie causes the main conflict when she walks into the A & P. The manager of the A & P yells at the young girls about their attire when the are being rung up by the Sammy. At the end of the story, Sammy stands up for himself by exclaiming he quits as the girls are walking out of the door. He does this because he hopes the girls will see him as a hero. As a result he loses his job and never gets the
As the story continues, Sammy curiously watches the provocative young ladies as they stroll through the store looking for groceries. In this fictional story, Sammy describes all three noticeable ladies, the main girl, "Queenie" he describes her as the leader of the two other girls. The second young lady he described was the
The woman that Sammy can not keep his eyes off is Queenie. She stands out the most from
Queenie, on the other hand, is symbolic of all that is alluring about women and life that might be possible for Sammy on the outside, a life that seems palatable yet unattainable to Sammy.
The young girl nicknamed Queenie, The 19-year old store cashier Sammy, and the store manager Lengel. The girl nicknamed Queenie by Sammy is physically described to petite with oaky hair and also to be very beautiful by the narrator. Since there isn’t much dialogue for queenie there is no definite personality that can be given to her, but by judging by her response to the situation in the story it can be inferred that she is a well-mannered young woman who has politeness as one of her virtues. She is a major character even though she only speaks a little bit throughout the entirety of story, Queenie is a major character because it is her need to get a grocery item that prompted the three girls to come into store, and also to impress her is the reason why Sammy quits his job at A&P. The next major character is Sammy. Sammy is a 19 year old cashier in the A&P store. Physically he is an average 19- year old but his personality differs a little bit because he is heavily observant of certain things and in this story he tended to be easily infatuated with a girl. The reason why he is a major character is because the story is based around him and he is the narrator and without him there would be no real story to tell. The last major character is the store manager Lengel himself. Lengel is an old man who like most other characters is not described physically, but judging by his actions we can infer that Lengel is either a power hungry old guy, or a guy who wants everybody to follow the rules no matter how big the diversion is. Lengel is a major character because of the fact that he is the person who starts the conflict of the story. It is his chastisement of the girls that starts the primary conflict of the story and this conflict is what influences everything that happens later in the story. There aren’t that many characteristics to place these major characters into a popular stereotype but from the information given and
Sammy’s obsession with Queenie shows how Sammy doesn’t get much action. He is about a twenty year old guy who is obsessing over a 16 or 17-year-old girl. Sammy gives every single detail about Queenie; for example, he says, “She was the queen. She kind of led them, the other two peeking around and making their shoulders round. She didn’t look around, not this Queen, she just walked on slowly, on these white prima-donna legs.” About 80% of the story is dedicated to the description of Queenie.
Gaiman opens with a short background on how the Queen attained her royal status. Through her narration, we learn that she had been just an average village girl when the King swept through her town and took his “king’s right”. Quite early on Gaiman begins this analysis on the inequality that exists between men and women. The Queen never questions the King when he takes what he believes to be his, in this case the Queen’s innocence. Gaiman establishes the Queen as a relatable character because of her average beginnings. Because of this it will be much easier for the reader to sympathize for her alter in the story. The reader is naturally more inclined to
Beauty has been a word that people use to described objects, things and most important people. Beauty can be defined in so many ways. The play “Beauty” written by Jane Martin has more than just one meaning. The author uses beauty to be her main objective that makes almost every situation in the play revolve around “beauty.” Being that beauty is considered something almost all women want and it can lead to devastation when you get greedy and envious about it, as it did to both Carla and Bethany.
I had the pleasure of seeing one of William Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, performed beautifully at the Tucker Theatre at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. This performance space looks more like an industrial warehouse than an art house, but walking in we are transformed to the magical land of Midsummer. I chose A Midsummer Night’s Dream play because its major theme is love. There is plenty of comedy to entice those who are not interested in love, and there are some fairies. Another theme is friendship. Friends and what they think and say are extremely important. Most will have had some experience of two