Unnatural Play Analysis

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.

This is a must watch Broadway show that makes your fine, terrible, or even boring day, an absolute blast. The Play That Goes Wrong has finally made its way to America and right at the heart of New York City near Times Square at the Lyceum Theatre. Therefore, the experience is a win-win situation for the audience. The Lyceum Theatre’s architecture is astonishing as it is filled with ornaments, I also realized the letter ‘L’ around the theater, but the most interesting fact is that it is a landmark. It has a proscenium stage while the audience is in the orchestra, balcony, or the mezzanine seats, like where I sat, and there is barely any space if you are a tall person. My seat was near the far end of mezzanine, I couldn’t see a part of the left side of the stage, so I found myself bending sideways to see what was going on, but I saw nothing. I found the side stage lights and a side balcony blocking my view and yet I had a great time.

CALCULATING DESTINY is an ambitious script that combines various story genres including a psychological supernatural story, as well as a sci-fi tale combined with an action thriller. At the heart of the story is a man caught in the middle of a major conspiracy.

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

Last April Something Rotten! came to Broadway at the St. James Theatre on 44th Street.

Have you ever wished you could travel to another land like Oz and go on a magical adventure? Well I know for after seeing the Wiz with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, I sure wanted did. I finally got my wish of traveling to Oz by being in a production of the Wiz in elementary school. Ever since then I have been going to see as many productions of the musical because it is my favorite so why not choose this as one of my third shows to see for class. Wrong!!! To my hearts dismay, I should have relived the glory days of myself. In the production of the Wiz I saw, there were only 30 children so most of them played multiple roles ranging from being a background dancer to the main character. My goal was to focus on the main characters: Dorothy, Scarecrow,

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

For the fourth, and final, role play of EDPS 315, I listened to Jessica. Her story was a continuation of the previous role play. She was having issues meeting with her future roommates to get acquainted, but now she is having issues with housing. They all waited so long to sign the lease, their apartment company no longer has a large enough space for all of them. Her story this time was more focused on her frustrations and issues with now being forced to regroup and change her plan again. This was the fourth role play that I completed for this course and I do feel that I have made some improvements. Even with all the previous role plays I have completed, I do not feel that it was the best I could have done. I still see room for improvement in the questions I ask and my usage of other skills we have learned over the course of this semester.

‘Stolen’ is a play by Australian playwright Jane Harrison. It tells the story of five young Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families during the Stolen Generation and establishes the racial attitudes and policies of Australia at that time. The medium of the play and the dramatic techniques utilised both confront and inform the audience about the treatment of Aboriginals by white society during the mid 20th century. Historically, Australia’s national identity has failed to incorporate Indigenous history and accept Indigenous people into society, and from the late 1800’s up until the 1970’s many Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their families.

Forbidden Zones the Great War is a play based on World War One, and was conceived and co-directed by Leslie Ferris. I viewed the play on Saturday, April 1st, in the Bowen Theatre inside the Drake Theatre Building. I was expecting a somewhat dry play that focused primarily on the historical aspects of World War One; the emphasis on the harshness of war, however, made the play more interesting and engaging. The use of design elements such as the soldiers wearing similar clothes on both sides and the focus on the emotions of individual people allowed the play to better convey the personal effects of war.

On September 29th of 2016, I went to go see the production of Let the Right One In presented by The University of Oklahoma, University Theatre, and Helmerich School of Drama. The play is a stage adaptation by Jack Thorne based on the Swedish novel and film by John Ajvide Linqvist with the same title. It was performed in the Weitzenhoffer Theatre and was directed by Tom Huston Orr. Furthermore, it was the American premiere for Let the Right One In and it was an honor that the Helmerich School of Drama got that privilege. The intense story was about a young boy finding an unlikely friendship with a vampire that left me hanging at the edge of my seat.

The Virginia is a five-act play written by Winston Hunter Brady in iambic pentameter. The play is a retelling of a Civil war battle between two ships in the Bay of Hampton Roads, beginning with the chorus introducing us to the USS Congress and her men at rest.

In the play “Well” there is an intended message that is said couple of times throughout the play. In terms of this play the intended message stated is why are some well and some are not? The relevance of the audience to this play was how the mother is being sick for a long time and the daughter is getting sick. The play really lays out how different people can control symptoms that some may not. As a Designer, you view acting as two known things; Representational and Presentational acting. Representational acting is “scenery, costumes, lighting, and sound imitate precisely the kind of environment and details in which the action of the play would occur in real life (210).” It means creating a visual performance to make the audience believe what is being seen is real.

Pg. 78: “All blocking explicates text, and ultimately theme.” First off I love it when I have to look up a word while reading (explicates), it is my own little discovery. When I first read a play, I get my first impression of it. I think I need to take more notes. I first read a play and I see it in my head, there are times I find it hard to let lose those initial first impressions. Maybe I need to wait to make more discoveries during the process, therefore I would have a deeper meaning of the play and be able to wrap my head around the themes better.

Suspension of disbelief comes into mind when reading Reed's play The C Above C Above High C. So how does he do it? Reed's brilliant use of unrealistic elements in his play opens up a realm of possibilities and limitless imagination to take the readers minds on a literal fantasy ride. To the novice reader, Reed's play may be a hard read, and without unrealistic elements to explain his writing may be hard to understand or just be a plain boring read, however once the concept is grasped Reed's play is quite a bit more enjoyable.