Radio Golf Play Analysis

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The Raven Theatre Company presented Radio Golf, by August Wilson, which was performed at the Raven Theatre and was directed by Aaron Todd Douglas. Radio Golf was the last play that August Wilson wrote before he died in 2005 caused by liver cancer. This play won the 2007 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. The playwright, August Wilson was trying to demonstrate how life was still tough in the 1990’s for African American people. He intended to show how being black affected the role in being a politician, but at the same time he showed the devotion that African American people had in doing what they dreamt to do. The theater of the play was called the Raven Theater. The theater was built fairly recently, within the last ten years. It is designed with pictures of past plays and also upcoming plays, including all their brochures on tables near the entrance/exit. The theater is quite small compared to the Shakespeare Theater. The staging of the play is inside the building on the main floor towards the back. The stage is designed with the audience seats surrounding the stage. Because the area is quite small, the audience and the set are very close to each other, making the voices of the characters more clear…show more content…
I first heard about the play in the paper, got a few recommendations, read the reviews, and saw the website online. The Raven Theater is in my neighborhood and I pass it frequently during the week. The names of the plays that are being performed are always advertised outside the theater right next to the parking lot. The Raven Theater Company publicized Radio Golf quite enough for it to be sold out on many days while it lasted. When I went, there were a lot of people and it was towards the middle of the production dates, meaning that many people had gone to see this play and were still doing so. Almost all of the seats were taken when I got there, even though it was a Friday

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