According to my first experience of ever watching a play. The Eccentricities of a Nightingale by Tennessee Williams was very successful in the director 's choice in actors. The actors applied realistic behaviors as the characters in the scene. However, when Alma Winemiller used sense memory to sing to John Buchanan Jr. I expected a character that emphasized her passion for singing to be able to perform live for the audience. Also, the sense memory used by the actor was obvious through her face expressions that the character was not singing. As for the director 's choice in wardrobe and props associated to each scene couldn 't be better. The details portrayed throughout the scene in props and wardrobe went very well in contrast to the location and time period.
The performance provided many examples related to themes discussed in theater but the most obvious were endowment, sense memory, and social economic. The meaning of endowment is for the actor to provide similar qualities to an object that it may not have. This play had successful actors who often applied endowment to their characters actions. For example, Alma’s mother Grace often carried a doll in her arms. Rocking the doll as if it were a live infant in need of comfort. The use of a doll over a real baby is practical
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Sense memory is when the actors use their experiences to recreate their behaviors to fake objects in a play. An example of sense memory is when Alma was curious as to how it felt to smoke a cigarette. She used her physical behavior to illustrate that she has never smoked before by coughing with disgust in her facial expression as she handed the cigarette back to Buchanan Jr. Both Alma and Vernon also used sense memory to recreate their behavior to drinking alcohol assuming that they have since alcohol is not used in plays because it is a stimulant. Sense memory can be applied to any object as long as the actor is able to recreate experiences they have had to the object presented in the