Prof Eric Parness Show Review November 26th, 2013 Becky Shaw Show Review I had very mixed reviews on the show Becky Shaw. I enjoyed the acting, the set, and the way the show was put on, but the actual plot itself confused me a little bit. I thoroughly enjoyed the set, and the way the stage was set up. The theatre felt more intimate, and I felt closer to the characters. The way the characters used the space was very nice, both Max and Andrew walked around a lot, and moved between the two sides of the stage.
Lewis, a young and naive graduate who freshly took up the job of being the director for this play of mental patients replies by suggesting, ‘Love is not so important nowadays,’ and Roy questions him if he is ‘from another planet’. Throughout spending time with the mental patients and helping them get the play together, Lewis begins unravelling the stories and views of love from the other patients. For Julie love is about being ‘foolish’ and on the ‘edge’ it is important as it lets us be ourselves and brings happiness. Nowra placed Julie and Roy in the play to persuade Lewis to change his mind and from that we can see that Cosi does not support Lewis’s original view on the importance of love. However some characters such as Doug believe in the concept of ‘free love’ and that having is ‘solitude’ is better than
I believe Alan thought she was probably just being slack, in reality Gretchen was taking her time and getting the jobs done with high standards. 2. Describe how Alan’s opening thoughts on his job, narrated in the video, affect his approach to the performance reviews. Does Alan’s view of his
Various characters throughout the play highlight these differing aspects of Proctor’s personality. Proctor also presents various personality traits as the play progresses, but however at the end he emerges as a strong character who is essentially “good” and who is forgiven and forgives himself for his adultery with Abigail William's. Proctor’s physical description encourages us to see him in a particular way. In the play he is described as, “the kind of man-powerful of body, even-tempered, and not easily led”. Though Proctor is physically strong, it is soon apparent that his weakness comes from his relationship with Abigail.
He realises this and sees how he can relate to the patients and accepts who they are. The play go’s ahead and is a great success. Lewis learns that even though the mental patients are mad, they are people who he admires and takes a genuine interest in their views. Lewis becomes happy with who he is and learns that even though the play was a success it won’t be the difference in the patients going from being “mad” to being “normal”. Louis Nowra uses alliteration in the last line of the play “time to turn out the lights”, a nice way to end Lewis’
Nowra uses “[Uncomfortably]” (Lewis, Act I Sc (i), pg 4), “[Uncertainly]” (Lewis, Act I Sc (i), pg 5) and “[Hesitantly]” (Lewis, Act I Sc (i), pg 7) in the first scene of act one of his dialogue, to show how uncomfortable and unfamiliar the mental institution and its patients are to him. As Lewis becomes more familiar with the patients and how the mental institution works, he becomes more relaxed and has less trouble directing the play. “[Firmly]” (Lewis, Act I Sc (iv), pg 50), “[Sarcastically]” (Lewis, Act II Sc (i), pg 58), “[Amazed]” (Lewis, Act II Sc (i), pg 66) and “[Enthusiastically]” (Lewis, Act II Sc (ii), pg 69) are stage directions which show that he is more familiar with the patients, and can put in his ideas for the play while still keeping everyone interested and
Nowra however shows that through Lewis’ discussions with the patients and the ironies found in Cosi Fan Tutte helps Lewis to change his view on love and relationships. Through Lewis’ involvement with the play, he comes to the conclusion that “Without Love, the world wouldn’t mean much”. In support, Lewis’ idea of love and relationships change at the end of the play where he realises that relationships, love and fidelity are “important things” therefore rejecting the ideas and values embedded and practised by the society in that
They do stop and stare at him. This gives him a powerful presence because, from what the audience sees, is that characters such as Mr and Mrs Birling have an arrogant, intimidating and powerful presence from the start of the play and so on through to the end, but only at places such as this point, the Inspector takes the power and control of the play and makes character like Mr Birling seem quite powerless and not so intimidating anymore. And also the Inspector only uses one word for them to stop arguing, which show how he doesn’t need to give a whole sentence for them to be quite and only one word. All of the power in just one word gives him authority over the other characters that are present. Another moment where the Inspector has a powerful presence on stage is when he gives his final speech about Eva Smith and leaves and the stage directions tell us, “He walks straight out, leaving them staring, subdued and
For example, Lewis’ experience with the patients, changes him and teaches him more about life than his entire university education. At the beginning, Lewis is only interested in earning some money and is worried about what may occur if ‘someone [forgot] to take their medication’. Rather than making decisions, he tends to try to please other people by agreeing to whatever they want him to do. Even his political beliefs appear to simply be based on those of Nick and Lucy. However as he works with the patients, he develops a new perspective and insight into certain matters and himself.
However, for Algernon, Cecily’s suitor and Jack’s close friend, Jack Worthing is like any other young gentleman in London: self-satisfying and living solely for himself. The audience gets to see both these aspects of Jack, but does his duality actually matter to the play and to the audience? Who truly is Jack? Firstly, the duality aspects give a neat progression to Jack, and interest the audience by showing his development throughout the play. Due to numerous circumstances, the secure confidence that Jack has of knowing who he is (Jack Worthing, orphan) is shattered to a disequilibrium.