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The adults in Salem, Oregon in Stephen Karam’s Speech & Debate had good reason to treat the teens as if they were children. If Diwata, Solomon, and Howie were an accurate representation of the other students at the school, it is no wonder that the parents, teachers, and school board sought to exercise an abundance of control and provide too much guidance in their lives. The three teens dealt with “grown-up” issues throughout the play, but they tried to tackle them in characteristically childish ways. In the opening scene of the play, viewers are introduced to Howie, an openly gay 18-year-old.
Grand Valley State University football has one of the most unique college experiences for all of division 2. The commuter campus in Allendale, MI is able to attract thousands of fans to football games on Saturday evenings to a town that has less than three thousand residents. The athletic department at GV is very successful at executing an effective strategy to bring fans, alumni and students to the games. Grand Valley football has a monopoly for college football in the Grand Rapids area. If residents of the greater GR area want to go see a college football game they are forced to go to see Grand Valley play.
Bulrusher is the first production that I personally have been involved with at the University of Southern Mississippi. For this reason, I was really excited about the production from the very beginning. However, when I first read the script, I was a bit disappointed. The script moves rather slowly, lacks action, and explores its themes mainly through dialogue. Initially, I found the script difficult to understand, particularly due to the sporadic use of a virtually unknown colloquial language, and I was somewhat concerned about whether or not the audience was going to understand the themes behind the play.
In the poem, ‘Shame’ by Kevin Gilbert, it exemplifies stereotypes and the prejudice surrounding Aboriginal Australians in a more modern-day Australia. Lines like ““Shame” when we live on the riverbanks, while collectin’ our welfare cheques”, shows White Australia’s many existing prejudices around Aboriginal peoples’ ways of life. The way that our country has treated our first nation’s peoples has embedded a sense of shame within Indigenous Australians for living their lives differently. The repetition of the word ‘shame’ reinforces this idea of the shame felt by Aboriginal Australians and illustrates the constant reminder that Indigenous Australians should be ashamed of their ways of life, despite white Australia’s major role in perpetuating dangerous stereotypes around our First nations people. However the ending line “
Cyrano has confidence in executing his grand gestures, one of them including his high standards in art and theatre. At the Hotel de Bourgogne, the play La Clorise has just started. Montfleury, an actor, enters the stage when suddenly Cyrano, who is not part of the play interrupts him. Cyrano demands Montfleury to “leave the stage—at once!” (20).
The film At the River I Stand was a very interesting film that went back to the civil rights movement and told the dream that Martin Luther King had and how his dream has come a long way. This film took place in 1968 in Memphis, TN. It focused on how African Americans were excluded out and were paid low wages and worked in poor working conditions. Not only did they go on strike to gain equality, but they also wanted to stand up for what’s right. Being though Martin Luther King was assassinated during this film, African Americans started more riots all over the country to fight for justice.
Jack Davis’s play No Sugar depicts the struggle for survival by the Indigenous population during the Great Depression in Western Australia. Set on an Aboriginal Reserve, the Munday and Millimurra families become victims of racist political manoeuvres that force them to move to the Moore River Native Settlement in the 1930s. During this time, racism against Indigenous Australians was normalised, which becomes evident in the powerful characterisation of key players such as the chief protector, Mr Neville and the head of the settlement, Mr Neal. Not only does Davis suggest that racist policies are powerfully entrenched throughout the political system, but they also inform political, social and cultural decisions to such an extent that the Indigenous
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.
The play “Steel Magnolias” by Robert Harling, is about a group of friends in a small town and later on have to deal with one of their friends who had type 1 diabetes and passed away. The play takes place mostly in a hair salon in a town called Chinquapin, Louisiana. Truvy Jones is the owner of the hair salon and is looking to hire when Annelle Dupuy comes in and asks for the job. Truvy is amazed at Annelle’s hair styling skills and instantly hires her. Later on, comes in M’lynn Eatenton and her daughter Shelby, who is having a wedding on that same day so they both decide to get their hair done, Clairee Belcher also appears at the hair salon to get her hair done.
Due to how the play was set in 1920’s Australia, racism, segregation and oppression were obvious depicted, but what really set this play into perspective was the love between the Aboriginals and their land. Ever since the Europeans settlers came to Australia, English automatically became something all aboriginals had to learn, Davis however uses Nyoognah language “wetjala”, “cooh”, throughout the play, this pivots the play’s center of attention towards the love for their aboriginal roots. Jimmy Munday’s dance the “karra” was a traditional aboriginal dance passed down generations. The correct naming of tools such as “corroboree”, “wilgi”, “inji sticks” used within the stage directions, instead of using a English translation, strongly comments on how Davis shows the love indigenous Australians have for their land. Without these aspects this play will lose all of it’s impact, as a result the connection between the indigenous community and their land is no doubt what this play is emphasizing on.
It tries to explore the process of reclaiming Aboriginal identity in the works of Sally Morgan’s My Place and Rubi Langford Ginbi ’s Don’t Take Your Love to Town. The paper focuses on how these selected writers engage in the reclaiming process, and also tries to locate the changes that occur in the identity of Aboriginals in Australia during pre-colonial, colonial and in contemporary
The presidential debate is a terrifying and clear glimpse of what our future will consist of if we elect the wrong candidate. More specifically, electing Donald Trump as the president of the United States will be detrimental to nonprofit organizations and the sector as a whole as well. He is a man whose ideology is rooted in racism and inequality for women. Trumps inhumane stance on stop and frisk could create a rift in organizations that could essentially offset the way nonprofits service the community and interact amongst other organizations.
Play Analysis – Essay 1 “Much Ado About Nothing “ Submitted by Noor Ul Ain Shaikh (BSMS 2A) What seems to be a comedy play for an audience who enjoys a theatre with good humor and romance, “Much Ado About Nothing” contains much more than just entertainment. If we dig in deep, William Shakespeare’s play has much more than a tragic story with happy ending; even that is debatable. The theme of this play revolves around deception, plotting against your own, personal gains and rejection.
Shedding light on a heinous chapter of Australian history, Phillip Noyce’s 2002 film adaption of the book by Doris Pilkington, Rabbit Proof Fence serves as a glaring reminder of the atrocities suffered by those of the “stolen generation”. Set in 1931, the film portrays a simplified version of the early life of three Aboriginal girls and their daring journey from an “integration program” to home again via the Rabbit Proof Fence. They are pursued by A.O. Neville (Branagh), the school director, whom, under government authority, is taking Aboriginal children from their homes and placing them in schools to be educated or more accurately, indoctrinated. Rabbit Proof Fence, through its compelling storyline and depiction of harsh reality, highlights to us that the real villain in colonial Australia was the government and it’s utterly racist policies. As a critic, this film struck me, as I’m sure it will many other viewers, in its veracity of the truth when displaying potentially painful situations.
On March 28th, I had the pleasure of attending the Broadway show called “The Play That Goes Wrong,” located at the Lycuem Theatre on 149 West 45th Street. On this particular Tuesday evening, I just had a vibe that something wrong was going to happen in this play – shockingly. I did believe this play will truly be memorable judging by the fun quirk of the show’s name. After watching the performance for about two hours, I can conclude that this play went beyond my expectation as its set disasters and characters amusingly caught the attention of me and the rest of the audience.
