God of Carnage

Richard Gremel’s original comedic play, The Mysterious Murder at Manchester Manor (TMMMM) premiered at the Vail Theater of the Arts. This show was directed by Richard Gremel himself, and the cast was Empire High School's Advanced Drama class. This play report will emphasize the performance of an individual actor, Emily Gates (portraying Nancy Waters), under a rubric of six traits: movement, believability, beats & intentions, subtext & inner monologue, physical score of action (PSA), and overall performance.

In the transcript she simply says she “cannot answer”. In the graphic novel her British educated lawyer, Mr. Davis, explains that she is unable to answer because her words “are not easily translated”.

The behavior is as if Connie is a new person outside the house when she is with friends. For example, “She wore a pull-over jersey blouse that looked one way when she was at home and another way when she was away from home. Everything about her had two sides to it, one for home and one for anywhere that was not home…” (Kirszner 454). Even when Connie is out being a “mature” person she still has her childish qualities with her, for example “…walking around that shopping plaza in their shorts and flat ballerina slippers that always scuffed the side- walk, with charm bracelets jingling on their thin wrists…” (Kirszner 454). Connie is given happiness from the attention from boys and especially when she is able to pick and choose who she gives it to, it makes her feel in control. This feeling only adds to her fantasy of her being this mature woman. This was a regular thing for her, attention from boys than going off with boys for a few fun packed hours. It was regular enough that when they re-grouped they would say, "… Connie said, ““How was the movie?”” and the girl said, ““You should know.”” They rode off with the girl’s father, sleepy and pleased…” (Kirszner 455). Despite the mature

Despite their controversial nature and subject matter, both achieved wide success and popularity. The two plays were also manipulated in pre-production to better suit their audiences and produce a more “box-office friendly” show.

The play Marisol was much different than what I had expected. The interpretations of the characters were interesting to me. As the story unfolded, the main characters; Marisol, The Angel, June, and Lenny all began to use tactics to reach their objectives however, the two that grabbed my attention the most were The Angel and Lenny.

Can you imagine Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein, the great work of literature, without, for example, such female characters as Mrs. Margaret Saville, Elizabeth Lavenza, and Justine Moritz? In this case the novel will have no meaning. All the women help to develop the plot, and without them Frankenstein will lose its spirit. Although these heroines have a lot in common in their characters: they are all strong-willed, kind, careful, and selfless, at the same time, each of them is unique, and each plays her own role in the novel. Mrs. Margaret Saville is the woman to whom the narrator tells the story. Elizabeth Lavenza is the beloved of Victor Frankenstein. Justine Moritz is the heroine who is accused by mistake of murdering

First of all, although Julie Taymor took some creative license while directing the movie their are still a dramatic amount of things that were kept the same. Julie Taymor did a good job of making sure that the plot and actions were kept the same or else the movie would be unrecognizable to the original play. The movie quoted the play word for word and made each character relatively the same. It is safe to say that there are more similarities than

While there are a few differences, the characters and the messages conveyed by them in the works, Ex Machina and Frankenstein, are generally very similar. In both of these works, the reader or viewer’s opinion of the different characters and their actions changes as they are developed. It is ambiguous who the protagonist is supposed to be in both stories, and initial opinions on who really is on the “right side”

Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad and “Apocalypse Now”, a movie directed by Francis Coppola represent two outstanding examples that compare relevant ideas regarding racism, colonialism, and prejudices. The two combine film along with descriptive language to portray their mastery during different eras. For Heart of Darkness, Conrad uses his writing techniques to illustrate Marlow in the Congo, while in “Apocalypse Now”, Coppola uses film editing and close ups on important scenes with unique sounds to identify Willards’ quest for Kurtz. Both portray the idea of colonization in foreign lands that otherwise may have been uninhabited by their own people if left alone.

As the play went on, I realized that the women were not different, but the same woman. After a year of isolation, and losing her son and loved ones, the mistress was literally driven to insanity. During her time she developed these multiple personalities, all of which had easily identifiable traits. For instance the first woman did alot of shouting and running around, while the second woman did more singing and playing around with what was constantly referred to as the window they were looking through. The remaining women that took on the mistress’s identity, possessed traits such as anxiety and using the stage to paint the picture of what was going on inside her

the first act, she admits to Christine that she will "dance and dress up and

In the context of the play, rather then ignoring the problematic elements, Anne Barton (1997)

Also, each play has women making decision for other women. This is human nature at its finest. People want to make decisions for other people. It is a basic desire to want to sway another person’s opinion. Even when teaching another person, opinions are passed along through most lessons. Control can be explicit or subliminal. Telling your wife, she can’t behave a certain way would be explicit. Saying “Women are used to worrying over trifles” has a more subliminal tone. Both plays are about control of women and their actions. In one play the woman are expected to give into men’s judgment, while in the other the women are generally ignored. Both plays have women portrayed as play things that are not meant to have

People just accept how she lives because she has a strong opinion of herself and is ready to argue it with anyone at anytime. One day, during a meal, Harpo warns Squeak not to laugh because it was bad luck for a woman to laugh. Sofia laughs in his face saying, 'I already had my bad luck. I had enough to keep me laughing for the rest of my life.'; (208). Sofia has no trouble expressing herself at the expense of others, especially men.

The main similarity between the play and the movie is the theme of the role of women in the society especially in marriage. Throughout the different periods of the past generations, pieces of art such as plays and films have