Almost Maine
Almost Maine is a play about all the different forms and stages of love. Some scenes where about falling in love and the many different ways that, that can happen and how unexpected that could be. Others where not so happy, some were about heart break and falling out of love. A few where about both in the beginning the characters were unhappy and heartbroken but by the end they had either found a new love or rekindled the old one.
A good moment in the play was in the first scene. This scene is about a girl whose hart has been broken into 19 pieces and she is currently carrying it around in a paper bag. She travels north to the town of Almost to see the northern lights, while there she meets a handy man. Their encounter displayed
My least favorite aspect of this play was the ending. The ending confused me and was anticlimactic. It was not funny and not entertaining at all.
The theme of this play is centered around time; the value of the little time we have been given and how that time should be used to live for what is right and what truly matters.
Sometimes, cuts in a play obey to reasons regarding the stage capacity, or your budget. In the essay, we will choose our cuts based on the play only, as we consider it an interesting exercise that will surely help us understanding the play. We decided to read the play a couple of times, highlighting the elements we could cut, and after thinking carefully, these are the parts we would cut. We intended to keep it short, as not to alter the meaning of the play, or hinder any part of the plot, we focused on trimming parts that would not necessarily add up to the plot, but instead, are there to show the human parts of the play, these parts are important in their own right, of course, but in our cut, we focused on the plot, excuse us beforehand if we are too severe, and cut some parts we should have
reach into the ideas and themes of the play so we will have a good
John Cariani’s play Almost, Maine takes place in a detached region of Maine. Almost, Maine is an exciting play centered around the daily lives of different love hungry adults who seek love in one form or another. Cariani conveys a message about how these young adults are blinded by the sheer nature of love. Almost, Maine does a marvelous job at showing with regards to having distinctive characters that exhibit such circumstance to the audience. Many might assume that this just your average romantic comedy play, however, Almost, Maine actually reflects our everyday lives, proves that how much of a fool we can be sometimes to do anything for love.
In conclusion I think that the stage directions and dramatic irony are significant to the play, and without them there would be no need for a lot of the events that happen in the play.
Why do you think these lines are important to the story? Please list who said the line and where it is at in the play (page number, act/scene, and line
In The Way to Rainy Mountain, the author Scott Momaday uses the theme of a journey to drive this story. He begins his journey after the passing of his grandmother, the journey to reconnect and rediscover his own culture. He shares this moment on page 10, “I remember her most often in prayer. She made long, rambling prayers out of suffering and hope, having seen many things…the last time I saw her she prayed standing by the side of her bed at night, naked to the waist, the light of a kerosene lamp moving upon her dark skin…I do not speak Kiowa, and I never understood her prayers, but there was something inherently sad in the sound, some merest hesitation upon the syllables of sorrow”. The passing brought a realization upon him to have to keep the culture going. He can barely speak Kiowa, while his grandmother was one of the few members who were completely fluent. I believe this book is a call out to his tribe to take the same journey Momaday took.
In my opinion Act 1 Scene 1 is the most important scene of the play
the end of the play and it seems that every step of love they reach a
The play, Almost, Maine, is about nine different couples that are dealing with love. In the Prologue, Interlogue, and Epilogue of the play, Pete and Ginette represent how you have to wait sometimes to be close to the one you love. East and Glory represent how when someone breaks your heart, it can be fixed by the right person. Jimmy still loves Sandrine but when Sandrine makes it clear she doesn’t love him fate takes its course and he finds Villian. Marvalyn is the only person who stuck around when Steve told her about his ability to not feel pain. At the end, Steve starts to feel pain. Gayle wants all the love back that she gave to Lendall because she thinks he doesn’t want to get married but he does and holds all his love in the ring he gets
Part One:The scene that was most memorable to me in this play was when Lenny and Curley¡¦s wife shared a conversation while the others were away. It started with Lenny moping around about the rabbit he had killed and then Curley¡¦s wife joined him. This scene ended in a surprising way, but in my opinion many interesting things were discussed about the concept of life. I was extremely surprised with the ending of this scene because when the conversation began I predicted that it was the start to a close relationship between the two of them.
Some of the most important themes of the play are shown in Act 1 Scene
Against the beautiful lyric and exotic account of the changeling's pregnant mother we have the homely jollity of Puck's pranks on the "fat and bean-fed horse" or "wisest aunt". Oberon gives us many set-piece descriptions: of the "bank whereon the wild thyme blows", of the "fair vestal" whom Cupid's bolt failed to hit, and of Titania's "seeking sweet favours for this hateful fool" (Bottom), among others. Here Shakespeare shows us what can be done "in this kind", lest the failure of Pyramus and Thisbe lead us to the conclusion that the theatre can only depict what can literally be brought on stage. In watching a play filled with references to moonlight, darkness, day-break we do well to recall that it was first performed in open-air theatres in daylight!
William Shakespeare has become one of the most famous and influential writers in the English literature, and his work has been reenacted and studied all over the world for several decades. However, we often do not get the chance to admire all of his other plays as the school curriculum in high school only covers his four most famous tragedies plays like Rome and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello. Now, as a college student, I am able to appreciate his work more as my have recently seen Shakespeare Midwinter Night’s Dream which is based on Shakespeare’s real play Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, a comedy that portrays the events that surround the marriage of a Duke, the love of four young lovers and a group of amateur actors that must put an act for the Duke on his wedding. In this version of Shakespeare Midwinter’s Night’s Dream, all of the original characters and the dialogues were left