Month: June 2016

The vibe I got from reading this play was that of weariness, as Hansberry describes the set in her stage directions: “Weariness has, in fact, won in this room.”  The Youngers have had a rough time and the condition of their house and constant fighting show it.  I really liked reading this play because of…

Glengarry Glen Ross was a little bit hard for me to follow but I think I can see why it is regarded as such a good movie.  The dialogue, while vulgar, was very sophisticated and the acting was top-notch. I found it difficult to watch because it has long scenes and was not very visually…

Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet, written in 1984 is his Pulitzer prize and Tony award-winning play written in 1984, and as rightly said by a critic but would be definitely more appropriately titled as “Death of a F***** Salesman” because of the use of profanity. I saw the movie version, which was directed by…

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is a tribute and endeavour on the author’s part to write about instances, creating realistic portraits of African-American life. Set in south-side Chicago, it is a play that powerfully addresses so many issues relevant to the African-American experience in the 1950s – a massive precursor to what eventually…

The play starts off on a controversial topic which has plagued the growth of human society throughout the years. The main character Bertram Cates was jailed in his small southern town for teaching his students about Darwin’s theory of evolution. The political aspects of this play is interesting to me because of how the dynamics…

“A Raisin in the Sun” is tad different from the plays we read before. It was strictly not about an event but about the hardship of the day to day life of living in the south Chicago harlem. It is about the reality and difficulty of making choices in order to move on into a…

Gah sales, I can’t say I’ve worked professionally as a salesman but I’ve worked at Emory telefund center (That’s where we call alumni and ask for donations) and the stress of calling and asking for a buy is just damn stressful. I always felt that in the two notoriously hard jobs, sales and customer service,…

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is a play written in 1947, which provides us with an insight into a lot of social issues or ideas, as they were perceived to be at the time – mental health, the idea of chastity, homosexuality, among the many others. But, most of all, the reason why…

Waiting for Godot is unlike any other play that I have ever seen or read. While reading it, I was in a constant state of confusion. This is because, while there is an endless amount of dialog, there is very little actual conversation. The dialog consists of provocations of despair, recounts of recent activities, which…

I very much enjoyed the story, Inherit the Wind. It is always heartening to read about people who are willing to put everything on the line and fight for what they believe in. The play tells the story of a schoolteacher, Brent Cates, who is on trial for teaching evolution to his students. The trail…