Wild Oats Analysis

When I was very young, my parents would take me and my sister to powwows, which are Native American social gatherings. Singing, dancing, and feasting are all characteristic of the powwow, as powwows serve as a means of experiencing Native American culture. During my time at the powwow held at UCSD, I served as an audience member for many of the traditional Native American performances. Through the viewing of these performances, I gained much insight into their symbolism and significance, and I was also able to contextualize some topics discussed in the course.

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

In “The Laramie Project,” written by members of the Tectonic theatre company, aims to examine the Matthew Shepard murder through the use of theatre. Within the play, there are several insights and moments that prove to be surprising, puzzling, useful, new, and interesting.

Upon initial reading, the poem’s title, genre, and speaker offer a unique perspective on a normally exciting aspect of weddings: the dress.

Dividing the stage was effective because it emphasised the actor’s use of proxemics and showed the different rooms. There was also a staircase that contributed to the actor’s use of levels. They also used the apron of the stage by placing planks across it; there was a particular scene where this was effective when Kipps suddenly fell down a hole in the planks. At the beginning they used the space effectively when the actor came out of the audience, it made the audience feel they were part of the performance.

On April 14, 2017, my friend and I visited for the first time Salt Lake City Community College dance company’s annual performance. The show was presented at the Grand Theater at the South City Campus of the college. The performance’s name “Moving Words” imply what the audience was about to experience. “Moving Words” consists of 18 different dances and each of those dances brought a unique feeling to the overall performance. I thought that the dancers and choreographers have done an amazing job. However, after seeing all the different dances there were two that stuck together with me, because of the ideas and the morals these dances introduced.

During the reading of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, the similarities of the Long Christmas Dinner and the characters within the play were blatant. This is a story about the values, traditions, and changes made during the time that African-American people were moving and becoming part of a society that wasn’t the same as those before them. There also was a similarity with the Crucible when talking about Bynum's rituals or “witchcraft”. Due to the similarities within the stories one can say that certain storylines have a long lasting and universal reach.

What if you were a young Native American who was unacquainted with the American society, and you are introduced to the culture through the skills of a rodeo.”If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary” the quote by Jim Rohn encapsulates the mindset of Thomas Black who is willing to risk the Native American lifestyle he already achieved, to do something unordinary and succeed at it. In the book, When the Legends Die by Hal Borland, the journalism graduate from Columbia University and past writer for The New York Times describes the determination and struggle of youngster who shows his tremendous passion in something not so ordinary for someone of his descent.

“Our Town” was written as an attempt to find the value you above the smallest events in our life. Being the most frequently staged American play of this century, “Our Town” still continuously is in production

To start their season, UT Austin puts on Building the Wall by Robert Schenkkan, a play about a dystopian future that takes place after Donald Trump takes office (UT Austin, 2018). Their next play, Anon(ymous) written by Naomi Iizuka, was their season feature. This play is based off of Homer’s The Odyssey and tells the story of a young refugee traveling across America in order to find his family, and his home (UT Austin, 2018). Following Anon(ymous), UT Austin put on The Crucible by Arthur Miller, the play that we will be closely examining later at in this paper. The Crucible is about events that have taken place during the Salem Witch Trials and addressing the terrors that can result of mob psychology in society (UT Austin, 2018). The next show put on at UT Austin was a musical called The Drowsy Chaperone, a fun comedy about the era of jazz

Using Wright-Curtis Theatre, which is a stage ‘in the round’, was an innovative decision. To place an incredibly emotional play in a small theatre where everyone can easily see others reactions, made it easy to gauge how others are responding to a scene. There were definitely disadvantages to having it in an arena style theater, there were many times where the actors would have to freeze on stage. The actors would have

Last week, I attended Cal Poly’s production of the Crucible that was shown in Spanos Theatre. The original playwright is Arthur Miller; In the school’s adaption of the play, it was directed by Heidi L. Ness and consisted of a cast of about 20 actors. The overall production of the play was well done, but the element that especially stood out was the set design. Pegi Marshall, the Scenic and Lighting designer, did an excellent job in setting the arrangement of the props and overall structure of the set. The small details added were notable because they boosted the overall success of the play by working hand-in hand with other elements to make the play stronger.

My mom and I were seated on red felt wooden chairs in the opera box above downstage right; basking in the anticipation of the start of the musical. The smell of the theater was musty, almost like a library. It even had those rays of dust and light that you see in old libraries. Looking onward, I saw the monitor in which Alex Lacamoire, the conductor, directs the actors and musicians. Closer to the balcony, huge metal spotlights hung, all containing the magical power to change a minimalist wooden stage into a bar, then a field, then a closed room in a restaurant, and finally the Weehawken dueling grounds. The feeling of excitement and glee was palpable. I looked at my mother, whose eyes were glued to the stage. In that dim lit arena of instruments,

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At times it was kind of confusing and chaotic but it just added a human element. The way they spoke made them seem nervous and willing to fill up empty void as to not have awkward silence. The nature of the play was very evident in the script. Peter was the only one who ever acknowledged the audiences, in fact he spoke directly to the audience in several different occasions. So this play has a presentational contract with a non realistic vibe due to having a supernatural occurrence happen on stage.