It was incredible. The main theme of this play is the realization a character goes through when she is on her deathbed. It communicates about death, personality of a person and relationships with other people, and the thought process of being in a job. I especially liked how they portrayed Vivian, the main character of the play.
Play Review In the dramatic play, Subterranean Homesick Blues Again by Dennis Reardon, he makes the setting clear that they were visiting a cavern. In the beginning of the story you can infer, almost immediately, that the characters do not get along so easily. As the characters go deeper into the caverns the constant arguing gets worse. Once they arrived to the third floor of the cavern, the tour guide tells the two couples visiting that they were at at home now.
“Sonny’s Blues” is not just about Sonny's decisions and struggles but also about how they affect the narrator. This story is as much about family and brotherhood and the relationship between these two men as it is about the character of
In the 10 minute play Subterranean Homesick blues again written by Dennis Reardon writes about a group of people who go on a journey in a cave, but this cave journey is not an ordinary journey in the caverns. This cave takes tourist to a world under our own. Throughout the play reardon reveals Greek mythology as the tourist are taken through the cave, and also Reardon gives a glimpse of how Greeks used to live. Subterranean Homesick Blues Again the playwright offered a very interesting change of events that gave a perplexed feeling to me.
Blues of hopes engages mainly with James Baldwin’s short story Sonny's Blues. In Sonny's Blues, the author depicts essentially two characters, two brothers: the first one who gets lost in his illusion of relative social success and the other, who is trying to find his way outside the box. Like Sonny's Blues, Blues of Hope tries to engage the reader in the risky attempt the find, not only another way, but also a better way outside our common social life, our traditional perception of life and our social success standard. Blues of Hope might be considered, firstly, as a monologue reflecting the state of mind of a suffering person, like sonny's brother who is in a personal quest for salvation. A real intimate monologue, whose beginning has the
The play “Subterranean Homesick Blues Again” by Dennis Reardon the genre is drama. The description of the introduction of the play is humorous. At the beginning it was funny because the characters were joking around, but as the play goes on and the family takes a trip then the play turned to horror because they found once they went they can never go back so they were stuck forever. Overall i enjoyed this play because this play consises of many many characters which makes it more fun to read because it can understand where are they coming from. Another thing i enjoyed the most is the way the author developed it to make it more entertaining.
In the story darkness is used to symbolize the threats menacing the African- American community. In the story and the African American community there is drug abuse and selling of drugs, poverty, and crime. James Baldwin “Sonny Blues” helps the readers understand just how black people are stereotype and how all these things affect the community and the people in the community. Darkness is used to symbolize the threats menacing
“Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin is a short story that has many significant parts to it. The narrator gives readers insight on how his relationship with his brother was like, how his brother was suffering from a heroin addiction. The narrator also gives the readers insight on his own problems. Due to Sonny’s heroin addiction, he suffered quite a lot as what was implied in the story. The narrator implies and describes so many themes in this short story.
Sonny’s Blues, written by James Baldwin, is a story about the opposite lives of a troubled inner-city black teenager who struggles with addiction and the missing relationship with his brother. In the opening paragraphs it is apparent the brothers do not have a close relationship as the narrator says “He became real to me again” (Baldwin) as if Sonny is only an imaginative or elusive figure. While Sonny has a real and apparent addiction to heroin, for which he was incarcerated our narrator also struggles with an emotional imprisonment of his own. What can break the ice between our two characters and reunite the brotherly love which was lost so long ago? Imprisonment is a common theme throughout the story and we soon realize Sonny has been arrested and will be sent to prison.
The story tells the story of two sibling. Though attached to anguishing experiences and unpleasantly that makes people shun away from, pain and suffering can also bring good in people. ‘Sonny Blues’ begins by a brother narrating a story of his younger brother Sonny, a musical artist with a drug problem. Sonny feels like everyone is trapped. Therefore, throughout the story, sonny suffers both internally and externally trying to liberate the people around him.
The play “ Subterranean Homesick Blues Again” by Dennis R. is a ten minute play written back in May 25th, 1983. The short play was written about a young tour guide that decides to mess with two bickering married couples ( Naomi ,Sherman ,Mick And Kathy , that came in to visit a famous cavern that the tour guide was touring them through ,but then it seems the tour took a couple turns when they were in the caverns. The play was written with a purpose of humor with a twist of darkness of a double date gone wrong for the readers to enjoy the unpredictable events occurring in this ten minute short play. The play “ Subterranean Homesick Blues Again” was a well written structured play with many details that drove the play into a humorous play.
Throughout the play, the characters look at faith, race, opportunities, fatherhood and
Subterranean Homesick Blues Again is a comedic play that soon turns tragic written by Dennis Reardon. The fantasy truly grasps of the horror between life and death as a young tour guide leads two bickering couples on a ghoulish path to hell, all the while to tousling with their minds. As the couples slowly deteriorate level by level, they realize much too late the danger around them; weeping as their souls and minds are consumed by the darkness of the treacherous cavern. Reardon portrays this elevator to hell as a series of floors that only seem to descend.
I would to attempt to design the play so it depicts a modern tragedy with a dramatic theatre structure where the audience can see this story in a new perspective. When staging this play, there
The characters in the play reveal some of the gender stereotypes through the way they are presented in the beginning of the play, “The sheriff and Hale are men in the middle life… They are followed
