The play, Bug, is written by Tracy Letts, composed of two acts. When I realized the background of play was in the old motel in Oklahoma City, I was interested because I live in Oklahoma. I watched the performance at TCC a few weeks ago, so I could make sense easily. Through the two main characters, who are Agnes and Peter, Letts makes a story of the play and shows what Agnes’ and Peter’s condition is, and why Peter acts aberrantly such as when he mentions conspiracy theories and pulls out his teeth to take out the bug, which does not exist.
In the first scene, there is a woman named Agnes White. Her violent and scary ex-husband is in prison and keeps calling, which is a bad phone call. Agnes yells, “Fuck you” (Act 1, Scene 1, 62), and hangs
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up. Between Agnes’ ex-husband and her, there was a son named Lloyd, who disappeared as a child and Agnes gave up looking for Lloyd about two years ago. Still, Lloyd appears in Agnes’ dream. Because Agnes was depressed by the disappearance of Lloyd, she often feels lonely. Therefore, her friend R.C. introduces Peter Evans to Agnes. He does not seem to have any place to go. Because Agnes does not want to be alone, she set him up on the couch for sleeping. Although she does not know him well enough to let him stay in her home, she allows him to sleep there. Peter was a veteran of the Gulf War; he believes his army experimented on him with living insects.
The army kept putting insect hosts in his body, so he thinks that very small insects that are so invisible are annoying him. After the war, he was in the hospital, but he escaped from there, so he stumbled upon a woman named Agnes, who seemed lonely and felt different from others. As the play goes to the back, Peter has the Bug in his body, but he does not know exactly where the worm hid. Peter thinks that the army’s people would have planted the Bug on him at that time, screaming madly, and pulling out blood, so he thinks he got the bug. Agnes looks at it under a microscope and says, “Millions...” (Act 2, Scene 2, 951). Therefore, audiences can realize Agnes also has …show more content…
megalomania. In this process, Peter sums up all kinds of conspiracy theories. After the U.S. government’s experiments on the Gulf War veterans were conducted, the U.S. forces were chasing after the experiment to catch the fleeing soldiers, and Peter builds up Agnes’ trust by explaining some actual events that have happened with conspiracy theories. Peter is already suffering from paranoia in the army and believes he has been seriously tested. When the rapport of Peter and Agnes rises, the earth shakes, and the light flashes, but the outside is calm, so it suggests that such phenomena are merely hallucinations. Then, Dr.
Sweet comes to find Peter and persuades Agnes. However, Peter, who appears then, proclaims him a spy robot and kills him with a knife. After that, they order a whole pizza, and they already do not believe anyone. Thus, they do not open the door when they get pizza. Agnes is not as severe, but like Peter, she has paranoia. She shows the audience that her eyes have seen worms, so I think that the bug also entered the body of Agnes who had a relationship with Peter. Before they die, Agnes and Peter say, “I love you…” (Act 2, Scene 3, 1244). To get rid of the worms, they put oil on their bodies and burn
themselves. Finally, I do not think that Peter and Agnes have had unfortunate deaths because they seemed to be happy with the two of them together, who would not have been crazy. The play was uncomfortable since it was revealed in earnest. It was also a picture of bleeding, and when they wrapped the house in silver foil, it made my eyes tired. In addition, the delusions increasingly worsen, and the two characters meet each other to maximize the delusion and even irrevocably. Looking back at the first part, I think that Agnes is an expression of Agnes’ delusion in the area where there is nothing to say when Jerry receives the call. Perhaps, Letts seems to want to express to people that have some delusion themselves.
The play Sisters, by Wendy Lill, is set in 20th century Nova Scotia at an Indian Residential School. The play focuses on a hopeful 17-year-old farm girl named Mary who was dating Louis at the time. Along with the present Mary who is currently in interrogation with, the duty counsel, Stein. She has been accused of torching down the Residential School, the place where she worked for fifteen years. There are various factors contributing to the impulsive reasoning behind Sister Mary’s act of burning down the Residential School such as, the actual truth to why she committed the sin, the contrast relationships with others that reflected upon her actions, and the overall punishment she should receive.
Yesterday night I reviewed the play “The Miss Firecracker Contest” In Wilmington, North Carolina at Big Dawg Productions. The play started out as Carnell Scott, 24-year-old orphaned southern girl who lives in Brookhaven, Mississippi. She is tap dancing in her room with a purple leotard and some kitchen utensils used as creative batons practicing her routine for The Miss Firecracker Contest.
The play is set around the late 1940s and throughout the 50s on the south side of Chicago
The story begins in “Catfish Row” a small coastal town based on the real town of Cabbage Row in Charleston, South Carolina during the 1920’s. The main protagonist of the story and leading man is Porgy, a disabled beggar man who is known for riding his goat cart around Charleston. Bess is the leading lady of the opera and is in an unhealthy relationship with Crown, a powerful, violent, alcoholic, short-tempered stevedore (dockworker). Act I starts with a lullaby being sang to a small baby by a young mother named Clara, as she sings the men of Catfish Row prepare for a crap game, prior to the game, Crown purchases whisky and Cocaine from the Sportin’ Life, the local drug dealer of the town, during the crap game, Crown who is very drunk kills a local man named Robbins, Crown flees Catfish Row and leaves Bess to fend for herself. Sportin’ Life who is attracted to Bess, he gives her cocaine and asks her to join him in New York, Bess refuses and is now alone, she has no where to go, she is rejected by all of the Catfish Row resident, all except for Porgy who takes her in. A funeral takes place for Robbins, Serena, Robbins’ wife acts very coldly towards Bess when she offers her donation to help pay for Robbins’s funeral cost until Bess explains that she is no longer with Crown, and now lives with Porgy. Soon after, a detective enters and tells Serena that if...
For my second article critique I chose to attend a play at the CORP Theatre in Rowlett to watch Steel Magnolias. Throughout the play my eyes were immediately drawn to many aspects of the play such as the characters and use of spectacles. My overall opinion of the play was positive. Although, unless you have seen the movie before it could be hard to follow along with.
On Monday, October 3, 2016, I attended Tracy Letts’ Superior Donuts. The play was directed by Sharon Graci and produced by The College of Charleston Department of Theatre and Dance. I enjoyed the storyline of the play because it had a unique aspect to it, however, I did not agree with the ending. The play finished with cliffhangers and too many unanswered questions leaving the audience to draw conclusions for themselves. Also the soliloquies given by actor Niklas Abbing who portrays Arthur Przybyszewski, owner of Superior Donuts, through me off because I did not see their relevance to the storyline.
When we came together with ideas for what text we wanted to use to inspire our performance, we ended up with about 10 ideas. Fairy tales, Edgar Allen Poe, Dr. Seuss, and urban legends had all been thrown out as ideas, but the play we chose was is a much lesser known greek play named, Casina. Casina, looking through one lens, is a comedy about two men fighting over a woman. Through a different lens, Casina is a power struggle between husband and wife and seeing which of the two will win over the other.
The play is set in the present time during the month of September. It is about the midday and the sun is out. A house is located between Trenton and Princeton New Jersey, pretty much where the corn fields meet the highway. The play itself takes place in the living room of an old farmhouse. A lady by the name of Marjorie is at home by herself going though her everyday actions when she approached by a strange man that enters her kitchen. The man appears to act as if he is confused and at the wrong house and enters deeper into Marjorie's home. She tries to be safe and acts like she has a husband upstairs, but the man is well educated and knows better than that. He knows that it is a lie and travels deeper into Marjorie's personal space. When Marjorie finally realizes that her trickery isn't going to work she tries to escape out the door, but the strange man blocks her way. This man is Raul and his main goal is to rape and possible kill Marjorie. A struggle of power breaks out between the two and in the end Marjorie's using the strongest muscle she has against Raul. She tricks him into thinking that she really does like him, when all that time she is trying to reach for a can of wasp spray to use in defense. Raul is fooled and as his weakness of pleasure shines though Marjorie blocks it out by spraying Raul in the eyes with the wasp spray. She then locks him up into the fireplace and that is the end of act one. As act to progresses Raul brings up the point that the cops would arrest Marjorie before him, because he is the victim of the fight. As the day progresses Marjorie's roommates Terry and Patricia come home from work. By this time Marjorie wants to kill Raul and bury him in the back yard, the obstacle to made when her two roommates don't think that is the right thing to do.
Staging and costuming a show for the stage requires a lot of time and hard work. When staging Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes one would have to consider how to dress each individual character and how to split the scenes to have them flow with the different characters. For example, the scene where Joe leaves Harper at the same time as Louis leaves Prior has to be staged carefully so that the audience understands what is happening. The playwright Tony Kushner allows for overlapping in conversations, but the director of the play has to figure out how to make the scene have an impact on the audience. The play examines significant themes of the time period such as religion and sexuality as well as AIDS. The play has to be presented cautiously to have a significant impact on the audience.
The first way that the play shows that the people in Laramie, Wyoming have a social issue with gays is through their personalities. When the members of the Tectonic Theater Project go to a church in Laramie, they find that there are a lot of people who do not support gay rights.
In Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles Mr. Wright’s murder is never solved because the two women in the story unite against of the arrogance of men to hide evidence that would prove Mrs. Wright as the murderer. The play Trifles is about the death of farmer Mr. Wright and how the town sheriff and attorney try to find evidence that his wife Mrs. Wright killed him. As the play progresses the men’s wives who had come along were discovering important pieces of evidence that prove the men’s theory but chose to hide from them to illustrate the point that their ideas should have been valued and not something to be trifled. The very irony of the play comes from its title trifles and is defined as something that isn’t very important or has no relevance to the situation that it is presented to. In this play the irony of the title comes from the fact that the men find the women’s opinions on the case trifling even though the women solve the crime which ends up being the downfall of the men as they would have been able to prosecute Mrs. Wright if they had listened which made the women’s opinions not trifling. Glaspell was born in an age where women were still considered the property of men and they had no real value in society in the eyes of men except for procreation and motherhood. This attitude towards women was what inspired Glaspell to write the play Trifles and to illustrate the point that women’s attitudes should be just as valued as men’s and to let women have a sense of fulfillment in life and break the shackles that were holding them only as obedient housewives. Trifles was also inspired by a real murder trial that Glaspell had been covering when she was a reporter in the year 1900. Glaspell is a major symbol of the feminist movement of l...
Baltimore Waltz written by Paula Vogel is a riveting and comical story about the love between a sister and a brother, and a metaphorical disease that tears the two apart. The plot takes place during the AIDs epidemic of the 1980s. In the beginning of the play, Ann becomes “infected” with the fictional Acquired Toilet Disease (a parody of AIDs), however, her brother, Carl, is the one with the real illness and is dying from AIDs. Throughout the play, Ann imagines her and her brother on a trip through Europe where she has intimate affairs with men in every country. A “Third Man” plays a large role in the script by being a doctor, Ann’s European lovers, and exchanges toy bunnies with Carl. As the fantasy of this play increases in oddity, the audience learns that Ann has been “waltzing” around the reality of her brother’s eventual death. This critically acclaimed show based on the real-life story of Vogel and her
Play is such an important part of the learning and growing, especially for children. Children engage in many different types of play, but the play I saw the most when I observe the children of my daycare is sociodramatic play. The book Understanding Dramatic Play by Judith Kase-Polisini defines sociodramatic play as “both players must tacitly or openly agree to act out the same drama” (Kase-Polisini 40). This shows that children play with each other and make their worlds together as equal creators. Children also work together without argument. There is also some personal play involved in their sociodramatic play. The children involved in the play worked to make a family having dinner, which is great example of how this will prepare them for
Right at the beginning of Act I we are confronted with three haggard women, Every detail of this scene urges our imagination to sense a confusion of the usual human order. Their curious paradoxes, fair is foul and foul is fair' and the rhyme in which they speak. In the middle of this scene we are confronted with the startling line There to meet with Macbeth '
The first time reading this story I thought of it as a very unique type of play that we don’t usually read about in our everyday lives. The play consists of an American family of five - a Father Dodge, Mother Haile, 2 sons by the name of Tilden and Bradley, Nephew Vince and also a few extra characters who are not a part of the family. From the beginning of the play the main character Dodge is introduced in a way that perfectly