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A Patriotic Salute To Her Troops Play Summary

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Montanna Checketts

A Patriotic Salute to America and to Her Troops was presented by Age Well Forsyth and directed by Dr. Linda Ledbetter. I saw this play as an audience member on April 1st.

The key purpose of this play was to teach American history and to honor our troops. They show this from a narrator, who gives brief summaries of each American wars, and shows pictures during the time of that war to show us what the war was like. They were successful showing this by having the narrator speak clearly and loudly and openly stated what they were talking about. They also sang or played songs that were either about that time or popular during that time. They also had the audience, in the beginning of the play, stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and gave the meaning behind each word in it. They spoke clearly and made it easy to follow along.
They run the audience through American history from the America’s independent to present day through song, dance, and a slide show. Teaching most America’s history is the narrator. There’s no clear setting as a large amount of the play there were a singer(s)/performers under a spotlight or the actors are ding a dance number.

The performers were amazing singers. They sang as a chorus, as a …show more content…

It was an original song the guitarist wrote because the guitar part was so bad that I couldn’t hear his singing at all. Instead of strumming the guitar, he plucked the strings, which gave it jagged sound that had no rhythm or melody to it. They didn’t have that much acting in it either, which I wished that did because the few acting scenes that did were delightful like when they did the history of the American flag, instead of having the narrator just say the history like they did for the other parts, they had an actor playing the flag and telling her story and what she been as the flag, which was well executed. It was a shame that they didn’t put in more stuff like that into

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