On October 23, 2015 at 7:30 in Tarbutton hall, I attended a play called Wit performed by the Oxford College Theater. Written by Margaret Edson, this play was about a woman named Vivian Bearing going through flashbacks while on her deathbed from stage four ovarian cancer. Throughout the play, there were wide ranges of emotions and delivered powerful messages that can be very relatable to the audience.
I enjoyed watching every character getting immersed in their roles. I thought the students did a great job in portraying their characters’ personalities and styles. From all of the characters, I thought Vivian revealed the most emotions throughout the entire play. Although she had some humor, I could feel that she was a lonely character in the inside.
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Knispel this semester. This class was new experience, as I never took a theater class before. Although I loved attending Broadway musicals with my parents, I never got to deeply learn about this field. As I was watching Wit, I seemed to recognize not only the characters, but also the background set designs. The stage at Tarbutton theater might have been very limiting in many situations. However, the students did a great job in incorporating the spatial relationships throughout the entire play. For example, I liked how Vivian’s wheelchair was used every time to signal a set change. It kept the audience the opportunity to look at the space differently each time the wheelchair was used. I learned that having good spatial relationship is essential in a play because it communicates messages that characters alone cannot portray at times. Even though there were little set changes, the lighting was used efficiently. I realized as Vivian got sicker and faced closer to death, the lighting changed to a colder color and even turned to blue right before she died. The blue lighting really depicted the isolation and loneliness of