The play I saw was How to Use a Knife at the Horizon Theatre. This is a comedy play by Will Snider that has some dramatic elements thrown into the plot. It is about a struggling restaurant that hires a new chef, and takes us on a ride through the transition of changing how the kitchen is run and the lives of the people in the kitchen. The play is full of surprises and jaw dropping twists.
It starts out with Michael the owner of the restaurant, who is sort of a playboy rich guy, complaining to his staff how he needs someone to run this place and keep an eye on the kitchen. Michael decides to hire an old friend of his, George, who was once a great and respected chef, to run his kitchen. George is not as respected anymore because he dealt with an alcohol problem that made him lose his job.
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He realizes that they are awful at their jobs. He starts to teach the cooks how to really cook, and teach Jack how to be good waiter. It turns interesting when he starts to talk to Steve. Everybody tells George to not talk to him because he won’t talk back. They are right but George will not give up on that. He pursues Steve and eventually gets him to talk. Everybody reacts in a funny way to hearing Steve talk. Meanwhile, Jack is a young adult who is struggling with finances and he wants to move up in the world. He convinces George to teach him how to read orders to cooks and run the kitchen. Jack successfully learns it and does it for a while. He ruins it though when it is revealed that he is drinking on the job. George gets mad and fires him. Meanwhile with Steve, George gets him to open up about his life and it is revealed that Steve is from Africa where he was a soldier. The next scene happens to start with an Immigration official talking to Michael about a search for a former African Warlord who now works as a dishwasher in the city and maybe he used to work at his restaurant. Michael brings
Behind George’s impulsive enigma you can see just how much he wants to be accepted and make friends. Isolated and lonely, George bullied children who were smaller than him and appeared as ‘easy targets’ because deep down he didn't feel good about himself and wanted to be accepted due to his learning difficulties and other assorted problems. George readily agrees to the invitation to Sam’s birthday, seeing the trip as an opportunity to finally make friends. You see a glimpse of his caring nature when he gives Sam a birthday present, using all his savings to purchase him a water pistol, and ensuring he likes it. However, he was unaware of the true purpose of his invitation by the resentful Sam, forcing you to sympathise further on George and expressing his innocence and desperation to form friendships. This is further demonstrated later in the film where he lies and tells the group that he smokes cigarettes in hopes to be accepted in the group and appear as ‘cool’ by doing the things they
When Mr. Potter asked him to join his side so he could get more money, George thought better of himself and decided the best thing to do was to turn down the deal even though it was a once in a lifetime deal. George didn’t want to do it, but he at sometime had to face up to the problem of not getting to see the world like he wanted to when he was younger.
George was motivated by the urge to do the right thing, and by helping everyone. When he was in depression he realized that his family, friends and town people were in dire in need of his help he wanted to live again.
Jack’s change in behavior has transformed him from the power hungry savage to a quiet and insecure young man. Finally, Roger’s feelings of no remorse allowed him to save his cousin by stopping them from attacking one of his family members. On the contrary, Ralph has become one an intelligent naval officer, and will always go the extra mile for his men; Jack was nothing more than a shy kid under extreme stress who simply needed the correct guidance; Finally, Roger still carries unhealthy tendencies, yet they only seem to strike when Roger senses danger. One event can have a domino effect on the rest of one’s life. Therefore, one must always second guess their actions or it could dictate how they live the rest of their
Like Ralph, Jack is charismatic and inclined to leadership. Unlike Ralph, he gets off on power and abuses his position above others so, he's basically an uptight spoiled little boy that can't be without his rich dad for long.
George Wilson is portrayed as a typical mechanic. When you think of him, you ultimately think of greasy clothes, oily hair, and large hands stained thick with black substances from working with every ounce of effort he has. His face would be speckled with automotive liquids, causing him to have an exceedingly rugged and almost intimidating appearance. His demeanor although is the opposite of that of his vanity. Instead of a gruff and curt personality; George displays a wonderfully companionable way of treating others, other than when he comes to terms with his wife’s betrayal. Even then, George takes great strides to keep his calm and leave the judgment of her and Tom to the Man upstairs.
In the book: “The Way of the Knife: the CIA, a Secret Army and a War at the Ends of the Earth”, the author Mark Mazzetti mainly talking about the changes between before and after the Pentagon and World Trade Center were attacked by terroristic organization at September 11 2001. Before 9/11 attacks, CIA’s traditional main tasks are associating with the military and spies, and are committed to steal state secrets from other countries, and monitoring the important events that took place around the world. The Pentagon did not do many human spying, and for the CIA did not get the officially permission to kill and CIA need to try its best to avoid killing. After 9/11 attacks, there are many changes, the Pentagon started to do many human spying,
Growing up, George had a wild childhood. His parents owned a tavern, which they lived above, and they were rarely around to give George the guidance a small child needs. George felt little love from his parents. He came from a poor family and sometimes didn't even know where his next meal was coming from.
Jack is constantly challenging Ralph (the protagonist)’s leadership. He forces the group to choose between him and Ralph after trying to remove Ralph as chief. He leads a manhunt for Ralph. Jack is also described as a “savage,” having excitement for killing and covering his face in colored clay.
George wants his family back. The mothers from the soccer team want to escape their ordinary lives by having a fling, and George’s son just wants to be a part of his father’s
The Shakespeare play that I did was “The Comedy of Errors”. The Comedy of Errors was one of Shakespeare’s earliest works. The play was first performed at Gray’s Inn on December 28, 1594. The Comedy was very popular. In 1938, a musical adaptation of the play was known as The Boys from Syracuse. Of course the author of this play is William Shakespeare. The theme in this play is a romance along with comedic performances also in it.
The shop owner is still angry at George and comes running over to scold him. However, the crowd rushes in and starts placing their orders because they are so enamored with George. As a result, the shop owner realizes that, although, George has messed up his order, he has also brought him a whole bunch of new customers. The shop owner is so grateful that he rewards George with as many choices of flavors he desires in the ice cream
He did not realise how stuck up he was though until Emily mentioned it to him one day. His major character development begins in the first stage of George and Emily’s life together. George and Emily had been neighbors their whole lives. George liked Emily and Emily liked George, but they never talked about it until one day when George approached Emily and offered to carry her books, eventually leading them to Mr. Morgans drugstore where they drank ice-cream sodas. During this time George said that once you have found a person that you like and they like you back, that is more important than college.
One morning he particularly complains about chest pains and decides to go into the doctor, despite visiting him only two weeks ago. The doctor assures him that he is fine and gives him some pills for his indigestion. However, George overhears the doctor talking about a man who only has a few weeks left to live and mistakes this man for himself.
He eventually destroys the colony’s food supply meant to pay off the evil grasshoppers. To rectify this he leaves the colony to find help. The group he finds then uses their unique skills to help the colony. Therefore, this movie is a great example of key contemporary management skills,