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Satchel Paige Play Analysis

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The crack of the ball, and the jazz music that goes along
It is every baseball player dream to play in the major league, except Satchel Paige. Satchel Paige and Negro League All stars were all trying to chase their dreams into the major league, the right way. The repertory theater production brought a major masterpiece, Satchel Paige and the Kansas City Swing, to center stage March 16-April 10 2016. Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan compose this play, inspired by baseball, jazz, and dreams. Khan not wrote the words, but also shaped and adapted these characters into capitaver performers. The theme of the play shows the struggles of what it was like living as a negro ball player in that time period. Not just that, but the performers and set designs …show more content…

However, baseball wasn’t the only thing that the play was surrounded by. The director added more characters like Buck (Satchel’s best friend), Ms. Hopkins (owner of a local boarding house), Moria (her daughter), Bob Feller (a white Indians all star pitcher), and Franky Singapore (a cocky italian baseball player) to Paige’s life. It baseball during the day and jazz during the night for these young men. But when the negro’s baseball player are left to entertain the white all star players, drama begins to stir. Sexual chemistry gets bubbly when Art and Franky are both lusting over Moria. It seems like the details and lines in this playwright wasn’t what was expected. Therefore, it left the viewer wondering what would happen next while watching the …show more content…

Throughout the play, he played as Satchel conscience, he always showed up at times of Saige's self struggles. Played by Eric Person, this character to add emphasis to Paige's life. Even if sometimes it was confusing if he was real or fake or what his role actually was. It was a unique touch to have him during the show. This character added confusion to the watchers minds. It is unclear during half the shows of Paige sees him or not. This illusion gets broken when he points to him at dinner time. It seems like the jazzman did an amazing job of opening and closing the play, however he should of been talked about or introduced a little bit

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