Friday, March 18 I watched “Residence” written by Laura Jacqmin and directed by Hl Brooks. Residence is a part Louisville’s 50th Humana Festival of New American Plays hosted by Actors Theatre and sponsored by Humana. The play centers on Maggie (Danielle Slavick) a sales representative for a medical supply company.) who checks into the Residence, a long term stay hotel in Tempe, Arizona. She becomes friends with hotel employees Bobby (Alejandro Rodriguez) and Theresa (Leah Karpel). Throughout this play, each character has their personal struggle revealed. Theresa struggles towards customer efficiency with sexism and school tuition as her obstacles. Bobby faces conflict with the mother of his newborn child. Maggie, our main character, battles depression, suicidal thoughts, debt, and estrangement all at same time. Like most plays, the characters come to a resolution with their lives while also gaining a better understanding of each other. …show more content…
On basic level, I understood Theresa and her struggle to be the best despite the pressures of the world. Karpel truly embodied Theresa as a character seamlessly. Karpel was able to convey to the audience that her character used mask happiness and courtesy to smooth away the frustrations without overselling it to the point that it becomes annoying. Instead, the audience understands and immediately sympathizes with her. My heart and hope went out to her every time she repeated “Five Star Service” like mantra, trying to gain self-control over the situation. Her body language evoked the right amount of distress yet resilience that I found inspiring and comforting amongst the train wrecks that are her co-worker and customer. Although she was not the main character, she did well making her role stand out without drawing too unneeded focus to her
Not knowing what this play was about, I went to go see it Wednesday after noon at Holyoke Community College in the Leslie Phillips Theater. I had many mixed emotions about this play. I thought some parts were very funny, but others were a little uncomfortable because of some racia...
Taylor's courage shown throughout this novel and her risk taking attitude make her truly independent, but her relationships that she has formed in her new life, and her maturing and empathy she shows towards them make her truly strong. Taylor truly has a genuine and good heart. I really did enjoy her character despite the confusion in the beginning dealing with her reaction to being thrown a child. She seemed to be to calm about it in the beginning but by the end of Bean Trees I understand her more and I believe she has truly grown into this amazing woman. She is a great mother, an amazing friend, a risk taker filled with compassion for others and her courage completely shines through. Her journey began as being a normal teenager and ended as a loving mother.
Characterization: At the beginning when she first meets Pat, her character is very dark and broken. She seemed deeply flawed. It also seems as if she is mentally defeated.
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.
One of the goals in the play is to raise awareness about domestic violence. This is done effectively through the events that are played out in the
The plot, Jackie navigates the life of a preteen in New York during the 1960s. This plot begins late in Jackie’s life since her story begins 12 years prior which is when she was born but begins at the most present moment in the play which is the now. Although all of the characters are being depicted through one phenomenal actress, the characters are limited to her parents, Perespone and her family, and the friends she makes along the way. As well as the scenes and locales are fairly limited all of the scenes take place on a geographic scale in New York, and on Erickson Street or Manhattan at her private school. This shown the privileges of a small set reaffirms the focus and tightness of the
Pellegrini, Ann. “The Plays of Paula Vogel.” A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama. Ed. David Krasner. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. 473-84.
Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, as well as Eugene Jarecki’s documentary, The House I Live In, both discuss the controversial issues surrounding the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, and drug laws. Ultimately, both Alexander and Jarecki concede that the court systems have systematically hindered growth and advancement in black communities by targeting young African Americans, primarily male, that have become entangled in drugs due to their socioeconomic status. There is a disturbing cycle seen in black underprivileged neighborhoods of poverty leading to drug use and distribution to make money that inevitably ends with the person in question landing in prison before likely repeating these actions upon their release. Both Jarecki and Alexander present their case, asserting that the effects of the War on Drugs acted as a catalyst for the asymmetric drug laws and
Having attended a leading drama school, April portrays herself as a golden person to her suburban audience until others around her make mistakes and she loses her grip, causing her performance to sink below those of the amateurs. No longer has a golden person in the eyes of the public, April allows the “weight and shock” that she is a “graceless, suffering creature” with a “constricted” appearance and a “false smile” to overwhelm her (Yates 13). Her sudden epiphany puts her in a limbo between what she wants to be and what suburbia dictates she is, a middle-class housewife whose only purpose is to take care of her
... separate from her home, a situation Relph called “existential outsideness,” as she goes through therapy at the inpatient rehab facility. As the intervention plan is developed, and tailored to Martha’s environmental demands, goals, and routines, she will begin to regain her sense of existential insideness. This will fully be restored when she returns home. The value of place to Martha, physically, socially and autobiographically, requires an Occupational Therapist to understand her home environment, keep her meaningful occupations in mind, and remember her roles as an occupational being.
Gentrification is defined as the process by which the wealthy or upper middle class uproot poorer individuals through the renovation and rebuilding of poor neighborhoods. Many long-term residents find themselves no longer able to afford to live in an area, where the rent and property values are increasing. Gentrification is a very controversial topic, revealing both the positive and negative aspects of the process. Some of the more desirable outcomes include reduced crime rate, increased economic activity, and the building of new infrastructures. However, it is debated whether the negatives overwhelm the positive. An increase in the number of evictions of low-income families, often racial minorities can lead to a decline of diversity
Our second to last day in New York started like all the others. Breakfast. Shopping. Sites. Back to the hotel. However, upon returning to our rooms, my stepmother (who was escorting us on this journey) handed me three tickets. Across the top of them, it read: The Nederlander Theatre presents Jonathan Larson’s RENT. I was completely stunned and my ey...
Medication compliance means; weather patient takes their medication as prescribed. Habit of medication noncompliance grow specially when patients are at home during a self-care. Behavior of taking medication is complex and it requires multiple functional strategies to improve a medication compliance. This paper is about problems and solutions for medication compliance. The solutions for medication compliance are education before medication, using reminder tools, use of compliance promoting packaging and taking help of family and friends.
Played by Christy Czajkowski, I thoroughly enjoy her acting. I personally felt like her character was realistic and comical. She had the ability to project her voice and be open to the audience while still portraying a “closed” emotion such as discouragement. In addition Christ y used her props very well. She glasses gave a good support to her character and the portrayal of her character. She showed true feelings of envy, discouragement, pride, and happiness. I am always supporting the underdog and in this play Helena I the one with the lesser advantage. I appreciate the fact that she got the man she wanted in the end.
The scripted gives every detail of what the house is to look like and states that the house should be more, “…comfortable than messy.” By having the set look like a comfortable home gives an atmosphere of what many, in the audience, would consider a homely feeling. (Norman, pg. 1) With guidance from Marsha Norman, the author of the play, she displays how she envisions the play being acted out and brought into the lives of the audience...