Author: Sara R. Carreras

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…

I have not seen many musicals on stage before (probably only about two and-a-half), so watching film versions of musicals have meant a lot to me. My favorite has always been West Side Story but Sweeney Todd comes at a close second.  The reason I like them so much is because of the incredible music…

Reading anything longer than a paragraph gives me a sense of despair.  Reading Waiting for Godot increased that sentiment tenfold, and I think that is a good thing.  I was sitting there reading the same lines over and over—the “nothing to be done”s and the “we’re waiting for Godot”s—and getting frustrated that the characters weren’t…

Of all of the plays and films that we are studying in this class, A Streetcar Named Desire is the story that I am the most familiar with. We studied it in one of my English classes in high school and watched the movie for it, and I also watched the Dooley Players’ production of…

The night before, I had only slept for about 45 minutes.  I kinda have this problem where I can’t sleep if I am excited about something the next day, which is a bit self-sabotaging, but it’s something I can’t control. My friends and I had all agreed to meet up at Chik-fil-a 5:30 in the…

The one word that comes to mind when I think about how to describe the movie that I just watched is the word “sweet.”  The 1993 film version of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing is a very fun, pretty story that tugs at the heartstrings and is quite sentimental.  I imagine critics of the movie pointing out that…

This past Thursday my roommate and I went to the Shakespeare Tavern in downtown to watch The Merchant of Venice.  It was my first time at the famous Shakespeare venue and I am glad that I went, because I had never been to a play venue that has tables instead of traditional seating banks and…

In lieu of reading the play, I watched the 1960 film version of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s Inherit the Wind, directed by Stanley Kramer.  My first impression of the movie was that for such an old movie (in my millennial opinion), the content was surprisingly modern in nature.  The issue of teaching evolution…

I really liked watching this version of Medea. I have seen Greek plays and scenes from Greek theater before, but I have never seen any that actually looked ancient in any way.  I have only seen versions that are modern or have been updated in some way in terms of set design, sound design, or…