The House Of Blue Leaves Play Analysis

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The House of Blue Leaves was a comedy play that contained political and historical events. There were also multiple times where there was drama between the actors. The play showed a lot of comedy with the actor’s personalities and their facial expressions. I believe that the play was trying to pull the audiences emotions with laughter. The play was also based off a historical event. The main event in the first part of the play was that the Pope was in town. The actors were excited to meet the Pope and make a wish. In the director’s notes, the Pope coming was based off Pope Paul VI making his first visit to America. The play definantly informed the audience of how many American citizens sought after the Pope coming to America. I believe the …show more content…

The colors of the walls, carpet, and furniture looked very old fashion. I thought the space of the set was the right size as well. I found it interesting that the sink was an actual real sink and the water ran. I loved the blue wallpaper. The wallpaper made a connection with the plays title and it kept reminding the audience everytime they would look at the walls.
The lights in the play were very bright. I think the colors of the set made the lights become brighter. The lighting was not good when they were just focusing on one actor at a time. I thought there was not enough light making them singled out from the others. However, when the lights went completely black you could not see the actors changing to different places. The lighting tech, Alex Evans, did a good job on making sure to not let the audience see the scene changes. The lighting made the play go very smoothly.
The sound of the play was good for the most part. I thought the size of the crowd mactched great with the actor’s voice volumes. I did not enjoy the ending scene because the sound was excessively loud. I thought that Liz Lape turned the sound of the music up to high. I even saw a person sitting in front of me covering their ears. On the other hand, the sound was not a problem any other time of the

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