One-act play Essays

Reagan High School to see the Reagan Fall One Acts with my dad. The Reagan Fall One Acts were composed of two marvelously written and directed major plays called, Not an Instant directed by, Kris Puddicombe; written by Anne Liners, War of the Nerds directed by, Nic Onorato; written by Gonzalo Nieto, and three short performances called, Hiraeth, It’s Not a Joke, and In and Out all performed by very talented IB theatre students. There were various aspects of the plays that I found particularly interesting

Narrator are noted and can be easily noticed by a change in attitude or perspective. The first of these many changes comes in the form of innocence into lustfulness. He experiences this change while forced to watch a naked white woman perform a dancing act for some of the “big shots” in the town. The indecisive and young minded narrator describes his interaction with the white female dancer in such a way that suggests that it is an experience that first provoked thoughts of lust inside himself and was

In Act One of the play John Proctor says “Proctor: No more! I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion. But I wilted, and, like a Christian, I confessed. Confessed! Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day. But you 're not, you 're not, and let you remember it! Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not. (Act 1 page 55).” I chose this quote as my first quote to represent John Proctor because like he said in this quote, he just wants to

Within the play, both Roy and Prior are diagnosed with AIDS and their ability to accept the fact that they're homosexual alters their reaction. In Act 1: Scene 9, Roy appears to be more concerned with the fact that his doctor's implying he's gay than he is about having AIDS. While they're discussing the fact that Roy has AIDS, Roy acts confused and offended because he knows that it effects mainly homosexuals and drug addicts. Roy gets into a miniature argument with his doctor as he attempts to get

Middletown is a humorous play about aimless characters going through life centered in Middletown,USA an ordinary and homely, yet dead and draining, middle class place with colorful residents. Whether it be the awkward interactions between characters in the beginning, like when Mary Swanson (played by Jenna Zarifopolus) meets John Dodge (played by Jospeh Masi) in the library, or when the police officer (played by Drew Morris) puts the mechanic in a chokehold, or even the characters odd in-adherence

suffering is not important. American culture has normalized violence through movies and lack of action in response to repetitive violent acts throughout the country. And this normalization has caused them to ignore the psychological effects that come from their violent culture. Violence has a reputation for being

stop the person obsessed. Just by looking around at our world today, one can clearly see the results of unchecked ambition. Unchecked ambition can be destructive to a society and cause the society's downfall. One clear example of unchecked ambition can be found in The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare uses a few characters to display the dangerous nature of unchecked ambition throughout the acts of the play. However, the main character, Macbeth, clearly shows the most. Although

world is out to get you? In one of William Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies, Hamlet, acts of violence seem to follow each and every character in the play. In the beginning, Shakespeare throws Hamlet into a whirlwind of change and endless emotions. With his father just being murdered by his uncle Claudius and Polonius banning the relationship between him and Ophelia, the only thought running through Hamlet’s mind was anger and revenge. The acts of violence throughout the play comes in three different

perform a modified play in order to get a designed reaction, “I’ll have these players play something like the murder of my father before mine uncle, I’ll observe his looks...the play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King,” (2.2.606-617). Hamlet chose the play “The Murder of Gonzago” and made alterations to the script in order to draw a specific response from Claudius. During the performance, Hamlet and Horatio kept a close eye on Claudius to see if he reacted to the play in any way.

Conscience is inner critical thinking about one’s behavior and acts of rightfulness or wrongfulness- this can affect how one deals with death and the idea of an afterlife by subconsciously guiding one to act a certain way to obtain the ‘promised afterlife’ in the Christian religion. In the time of Shakespeare- the Elizabethan era, the two main religions were Catholic and Protestant, the reader can see influences of religion throughout Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In ‘Hamlet’, the Christian concepts of

How can a character in a play cause chaos and madness between other characters while that character is not physically present at the time of the scene? How can other people make their actions and feelings based on an action from someone who isn't there anymore? In Hamlet by Shakespeare, there is a character that makes other people make actions and stir their emotions around during the entire story to make them act a certain way towards others and even make a certain individual want to kill another

prejudice to those who serve and bring benefit to society. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, John Proctor is a perfect example of a person who comes across as the proverbial Christ figure, someone with a whole lot of characteristics revealed throughout the play. Confronting the evil in Salem, overcoming temptation, but also being persecuted and suffering is what Proctor was known for. When John Proctor was accused of witchcraft in 1692, he knew that even though the accusations were false and that the women

protagonist faces a hardship of his own on whether or not to trust himself along with those surrounding him. Since Hamlet admits that he merely acts insane, he has the ability to decide who he should and should not trust with his secret. No matter how hard he tried, Hamlet faced times where he needed and wanted to out his ‘crazed mind’. In the first act of the play, Horatio and two guards tell Hamlet of a spirit walking through the castle grounds who looks eerily like the Old King

10). By doing this Kambili avoids implicating her father in his act of violence, but Kambili is still able to raise the subject of her father’s abusive behaviour. Eugene’s abuse not only cripples his family members’ bodies, but it also controls their tongues, yet Kambili masks the brutality of her father’s abuse with her words and deploys indirect, euphemistic tactics to describe

“There are no small parts, only small actors,” as once stated by Constantin Stanislawski, illustrates that not every character has to have an abundance of stage time in order to play a substantial role. In William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Hamlet, King Hamlet’s Ghost, although only present in a modest number of scenes, proves to be a significant presence among several of the leading roles. The ghost is trapped in purgatory, unable to repent his sins, therefore seeking revenge for his murder through

As in the case with many novels and their film adaptions, Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel version of the original Jurassic Park story differs greatly from that of its 1993 film variation. One such disparity that can be noted between the two is the beginning of both adaptions. The beginning of the novel version deals with the enigmatic migration of packs of small carnivorous dinosaurs to the Costa Rican mainland, where they cause havoc in the form of attacking people and their domestic animals throughout

Strong female characters are integral to any book, play, or movie hoping to reach a broad audience. They provide a perspective very different from the traditionally male-dominated characters throughout literature and give young girls captivating and compelling role models to look up to. Very few of Shakespeare’s works fail to feature highly capable female characters in leading or substantial supporting roles, a quality which has allowed his works to endure throughout time and resonate with a diverse

Introduction Macbeth is considered to be Shakespeare’s one of the most outstanding tragedies. Scholars widely agree that Macbeth was written around the year 1606 and to support the idea ‘the strongest indication that Macbeth was composed in the summer of 1606 concerns its allusion to a ship named the “Tiger” which has sailed to the near east en route to Aleppo, an ancient trading city in Syria’(Feldman, 2011: 213). Shakespeare’s main source to write Macbeth was Chronicles of England, Scotland

Katherine and Bianca are opposites at the beginning of Taming of the Shrew. Petruchio and Katherine are very similar. Lucentio is overcome by love and is willing to debase his station in order to achieve it, like many other women and men in Shakespeare's plays. Despite the confining gender expectations and roles of his time, Shakespeare was aware and interested in what people of different genders could have in common. Shakespeare uses the differences and similarities in personality traits throughout Taming

consisted of three one-acts back to back with a short intermission between them. My favorite thing about attending was the seating arrangement, I was able to sit up close and watch the performances, and I really enjoyed that. These one-acts were very well put together and entertaining to watch. The first one-act of the evening was Trifles by Susan Glaspell it directed by Sarah Bronson and technical directed by Dalton Pittenfer. Trifles is set in a 1916 Tennessee farmhouse. This play was about murder