Hair by Galt MacDermot, James Rado, & Gerome Ragni is a fast-paced, trippy show about a tribe of young hippies in 1968 protesting the Vietnam War and dealing with social issues such as racism and discrimination, gay rights, women’s sexual rights, environmental crises, and much more. In order to clarify and establish the storyline of the show, the rest of the actors in Tribe Hozho and myself focused on different elements of Michael Shurtleff’s Audition. Personally, my focus was upon creating relationships, discovery, and conflict. Relationships in Hair were vital for all cast members with not only each other, but where each tribe member came from and their relationships with that situation. In the beginning of the play, Berger and Sheila had …show more content…
There tended to be many discoveries every night for the characters in the show when dealing with Claude. He never seemed to truly fit into the tribe, especially when lying about his draft card. After the tribe learned that he was considered physically fit to go to war, they learn that he never destroyed his draft card. Then, he says he’s going to destroy it and lights a card on fire right as Berger reads that it is Claude’s New York Public Library card. In the second act after the trip, the tribe learns that Claude does not want to be a person that lives on the streets. He also does not want to work for all of the money he wants to have, which is everything the tribe goes against. They have given up many material possessions to fight the money-driven American ways. This discovery about his character informed them that he is not one of them and that he was going to leave for war no matter how scared he was to die. Each night as an actress playing Sheila, I found that I discovered new things: new faces that people made, a meaning behind what a character said, a new response to have when talking to other characters. It only helped to live as Sheila more and more each