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Appropriate Play Analysis

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In the play Appropriate that was put on at Colorado State University, is a play about the Lafayette's, an dysfunctional family that gets mixed up in racial situation. The purpose of putting on this play was to show how with all the racial tension going on around the world, everyone has their only views on what happens. This also showed how being put in to situation, like the Lafayette’s were put in, make it a lot harder to deal with. During the play they show how different people look and react are racism. The director was showing how different nationalities and religions, try to deal with situation even if it all blows up. They were able to show how different people tend to acted towards racism tension. They did an okay job with the staging of the set but they defiantly had flaws with it. I went to see the show twice, the first time I sat in the first row in house left. With some scene it was difficult to see what was happening on stage because I had boxes and tables in the way of seeing things that happened behind them. The second time I watched the play I sit towards the center of the auditorium and fourth row. In this seat I was able to see the stage better and when scenes that I could not see very well before I was able to see better, and see more …show more content…

At the end of the play they have 8 little scenes that was covered over 10 minutes. This is when everyone has left the house alone, it starts to decay. They had really good special effects with showing how the house was decaying, by the chandelier falling, or when a shelve that had plates on top of it fell. Through out this time, between the little snippets, they turn of the lights off and put fog into the theater. To me this showed the course of time, and was able to project the lights more. They also did this at the beginning of the play. They pumped fog into the theater for the first scenes so the phone flash lights projects out

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