Month: June 2016

Medea is an ancient Greek play that tells the story of a woman who has been so hurt by love that she is willing to pay any price to make her husband, Jason, feel suffering even greater than her own. She is even willing to sacrifice the lives of her own children just to cause…

Waiting for Godot, an absurdist play, by Samuel Beckett is “a tragicomedy in two acts” about two characters, Vladimir (DiDi) and Estragon (GoGo), who wait endlessly for the arrival of a person named Godot. the two acts are set in the same set (a barren “mound” with a leafless tree). Estragon and Vladimir remain in that…

For my second live performance it will the opposite of the first performance because this time it was a fairly large production that had been advertising all over TVs and bus stops all around last year. It was the theatrical version of the book Wicked. The premise of the whole play is based on the…

For my first live performance I went to the street Hongdae, it is a street near an arts university. This street has numerous small theaters that is run by soon to be acting university students that takes on productions, so it is relatively cheap but at the same time you can expect a good solid…

Waiting For Godot Response Initially, Waiting For Godot was very confusing and a little frustrating for me. I didn’t understand what the underlying message was or why it was that nothing was happening. However, as the play went on I seemed to develop a deeper understanding (without even realizing it) for the absurdist nature of…

He thought that his addiction ran too deep for him to quit, but that wasn’t the case. In reality, he had thoroughly convinced himself that this addiction was an integral part of his identity and to tackle it would be to remove an important part of himself, a part that remained a constant in his…

Second Live Performance Response On Friday, June 17th, I went see a friend of mine perform at Masquerade– an Atlanta concert venue. The friend– Bockarie Amara, is an aspiring musical artist who specializes in rap music. This was not the first time I have seen him perform, but I have always considered him to be…

  This, last Saturday, I went to see an adaptation of As You Like It by famous Indian theatre and film personality, Rajat Kapoor titled, “I Don’t Like It. As You Like It” at the prominent theatre in my city, Kolkata, India, the G.D. Birla Sabhagar. The play had a very unique take on this…

A Raisin the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, is the story of a lower- class African American family living in Chicago. This play is very similar to Gleengary Glen Ross in terms of how families struggle to move up the social ladder and what bold steps they are ready to take and by risking a lot…

I loved this film because its motivation and message appealed to me. I am planning to be a business major and I am corporate freak, and this play opened my eye to a very different life and struggle that men go through to earn a living. So this screenplay is set in a Chicago real estate…