Saturday, April 13, 2013
Detroit
Detroit, not too terribly long ago, was a thriving city in which many working people desired to live in and work. Everyone aspired to be living 'The American Dream', to have a successful job, beautiful family and home. Unfortunately, all the charm and wonderful living environment that Detroit supplies has gone way down hill. So, the play does not mention at one point at all anything regarding Detroit. I think what D'Amour is striving to get across is the fact that the American Dream is still something going on, there is no specific place or time it belongs in. It is a constant aspiration to people across the nation. Detroit is just a prime example of exactly this. There are thousands of people working hard to put food on their table for their family who could get laid off tomorrow. It is a real and current thing and this could happen to anyone, anywhere.
Buried Child
Buried Child is a very realistic play. The play centers around a pretty average family with characters that most people are familiar with or may even live with. This show has so much ambiguity tied up within it, which sets it apart from other realism-set plays we have come into contact with this semester.What really throws me off, though is the fact that you never really find out who the buried child is. The amount of ambiguity we see in this show is SO much more than what we have seen in any other realistic play thus far. The play starts off with what appears as a normal couple. As they readers keep reading and the story progresses, they can tell that there is obviously a secret hidden. Vince eventually drinks himself into an insane and drunk state, you wonder if he does this to receive credit, attention, or maybe even recognition from his family. It was also hinted at that Vince himself could possibly very well be the 'buried child', that is until Tilden walks in with this buried child in hand after digging him up.
Noises Off
In Noises Off, there are quite a handful of motifs that do come to mind. One motif in particular is order. Throughout the whole course of this show, there is no sense of order, almost a lack of communication. These characters are in a constant struggle of trying to restore some bit of order back to their production of ' Nothing On'.This restore of order proves not successful which eventually brings the characters close to insanity and leads them to fighting with each other over everything they possibly can argue over.I feel that a wonderful tagline for this show would be a line of Llyod's in the show, " And on we blindly stumble!" This tagline not only supports the chaos going on amongst their show, "Nothing On", but also the whole course of Noises Off itself. In each act, not only do the actor's performances become more and more crazy but as well as their states of mind. With an immense desperation to restore order in what mess they are in, a total downfall occurs with Act III.
The Glass of Water
Finding the specific protagonist for this play was a rather difficult task. Since there are primarily 5 central characters with specific storylines following each, it was a struggle to pinpoint who is the real protagonist.I believe that this play is a play centered mainly around love, rather than the conflict of 'war' itself. With this story of love comes the essential question of 'Will Abigail and Masham end up together and in love?' I don't always believe that whatever character receives more stage time is necessarily the protagonist. The audience gets a strong admiration for Abigail and Masham as a couple and as individual characters. Even though characters such as Bolingbrook receive more overall stage time, I feel that Abigail is more of the protagonist if the play. The audience can connect easier and have more empathy of her real situations. I feel that Scribe wanted the readers and audience to root and cheer for Abigail ( and Masham) more so as a team. Scribe maybe wanted us to root for a successful relationship between the two.Even though I believe that Abigail is the most 'protagonist' like character in this play, I don't feel that pinpointing a protagonist is necessarily important in this play. The plethora of conflicts and situations revolving around each character, when they come together- that produces a strong and powerful story.
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