Analysis Of Rooted By Tim Miller

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1. There was one moment in the performance that really struck me as powerful: his time at the Montana Gay Pride event. During his time at said event, Miller was constantly harassed (amongst other gay and lesbian individuals) and threatened by various homophobic groups that also attended the event; some of these people included those from the Ku Klux Klan. Miller stated that the homophobic individuals threw things at him and shouted insults at him, and one of the objects broke on the ground and injured his hand. As I heard him speak, I felt like I was living through that memory. Just thinking about how harshly he was treated reminds me so much of how African Americans were treated back in the 19th and 20th centuries, inhumanely. 2. The performance I went to see was known as Rooted, a one-man performance by Tim Miller. The show focuses on Miller’s life as an openly gay …show more content…

After the performance, I related most with Tim Miller’s acceptance and embrace of his identity. Even though I personally haven’t experienced racism in my life, that I’m aware of, I did still feel like I could also empathize with his struggle for basic human rights not only for himself but for other LGBTQ+ individuals. If I could make a play about myself, I would say it would center around finding and embracing my identity during my teenage and young adult years with examples from my childhood. I would definitely “steal” Miller’s tongue-in-cheek and sarcastic humor as well as his ability to make his stories relatable to his audience. I feel like those techniques would work the best for me because I’m confident that I could find something in my past that could be relatable to at least one person in my audience. A good example would be Tim’s crush on his friend and their argument, mainly because it was similar to an experience I had. Also, it was one of the most relatable and the funniest of his many stories. In my performance, I would definitely talk about a crush I had during my school

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