The Selkies Play Analysis

Teechers, a play written by John Godber in 1987, bases itself on youth and the playwrights own perspective of the corrupt education system. His poignant introduction to the text of the play begins, "Teechers was designed to be played by three actors, multi-role-playing twenty other parts in a play-within-a-play format.” Everything about the play is reduced to the bare minimum: actors, stage, and audience." And this ideology of "essentials" is the centre piece for the play. He wittily applies a Brechtian approach with three pupils, Salty, Gail, and Hobby who are able to use this versatility from multi-rolling in portraying many characters served with a platter of comedic and melodramatic nature. On a serious note though, the play is Somewhat

Group 5A is stacked with some of the most talented players in the area, and on Monday night at Norview High School they will all be under one roof.

Alana Horne is a first year student at Middle Georgia State University, where she is actively working on her core classes in the hopes of transferring into The University of Georgia and eventually working at Walt Disney World and for the Disney Company. In the meantime, she volunteers with Princesses with a Purpose and also volunteers for Perry Players Community Theatre in Perry, Ga. The plays that she participated in at the Perry Player’s Theatre are as follows: Oliver, The Addams Family, and A Christmas Carol. In these plays she has been in the ensemble except for A Christmas Carol where she starred as the Ghost of Christmas Past. In the company she participates in, Princesses with a Purpose, she plays the characters of: Anna (Frozen), Tinkerbell

Firstly let us consider conflict. In each act of the play, we see the overpowering desire to belong leading to a climax of conflict

The first words you hear are “punch me” which blows your mind. It makes you ask, “why would someone want to be punched?”. As the play goes on you find out why and it makes you take a step back to realize just how serious this topic is. Just like the production A Chorus Line, you felt for the characters and that connection you had with them only developed more and more throughout the production. One example of this would be how one of the main characters, “Amy” felt throughout the duration of the play. Amy felt that she was alone, and no one would be there for her while she was enduring something that no child should ever have to undergo by themselves. The second example would be “Ester” who was so willing to do anything Amy asked because she wanted friendship and acceptance so badly. The beginning of the play was filled with Ester constantly asking if she was punching her correctly or could do anything to help Amy. This really connects to us as young adults and adolescents because we are constantly looking for acceptance from our peers. This was shown very clearly through the characterization of Ester throughout the

My favorite musical we have watched in here is a tie between Newsies and Les Mis, but this about Newsies. Newsies is a phenomenal Broadway production. Fun fact it was released as The News Boys in the United Kingdom. It was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by choreographer Kenny Ortega.

better understanding of the movie. In my opinion, I believe that the movie and the play’s

Research for The Laramie Project, Moises Kaufman's nationally successful play, began one month after a horrific crime occurred in Laramie, Wyoming. Members of Kaufman's theatrical group, Tectonic Theater Project, travelled to the open ranges of the West in order to gather in-person interviews from Laramie's populace. The purpose was to capture the emotions, reflections, and reactions of the people who were most closely and personally associated to the crime—the brutal beating and subsequent death of a young gay college student named Matthew Shepard. This incidence had become a national symbol of the struggle against intolerance and brought attention to the lack of hate crime laws in the U.S. One of the most powerful “moments” in the play was “Dennis Shepard’s Statement” in which Matthew’s father delivered a moving and very

With a youthful face, and striking blonde hair, the 41 year old is very knowledgable when it comes to crime within families. “the kids that I deal with suffer from massive issues with things like ADHD and there are other things running along side like schizophrenia and they are constantly committing crime, its almost like an impulse. There are other kids with preverbal trauma who have grown up in a violent background with people around them who have abused the law and when they grow up tend to do the same.”

shall firstly do a summery of the play and give a basic image of what

This film will provide you with an enhanced understanding of the play. Although, it is misleading at times, this version of the play will keep you fully entertained for the full 111 minutes and provide you with extra knowledge of the play. Casting The majority of the cast was well selected,

On a nutshell, this play was very successful to bring out the real emotion of the story. From the beginning to the end, every scene and dialog is in my mind. Every expression has been imprinted in mind. This play has taught me a very vital lesson. The only way we can find a solution to our complicated relationship is through understanding and finding a way to love each other for who we are and nothing

I have never been involved with the production of any kind of play, so my partner and I decided that we would watch multiple versions of this play. There was Kenneth Branagh’s version which was sort of lack characteristic that we thought would be suiting for our “soap opera” themed performance.

In Summary, with these three examples it is shown that the play and the movie contrast quite a bit. Most of the story line and the dialogue were very similar to the original story in the movie but some things were changed, possibly to shorten the story to be able to make

look at both of the aspects of the play. In my piece of writing I