A Streetcar Named Desire Overall Reflection

       At the beginning of the play, the first character that I noticed that I liked and "felt for" was Stanley. I believe I liked him because I believed he was right, for all intents and purposes. Sure, he was picking on Blanche and making life hard for her, but at the end of the day, SHE was the one who went to his house, SHE was the one who would constantly steal his liquor, and SHE was the one who was trying to take his wife and unborn child away from him. I believe that if Blanche had been a split image of her sister, simply visiting her to pass by on her way to somewhere, then I think that Stanley would have enjoyed her presence more, and perhaps they wouldn't have "had [the] date with each other from the beginning" (162).
       Something that I liked more about the writing style itself was how Tennesee Williams gave such detail in all of the stage directions. I found it interesting, as, in most plays, there simply isn't nearly as much detail as in A Streetcar Named Desire. I doubt it has any special meaning to it, but I simply find it interesting as an actor to take note of.
       While the title of the work is quite odd, I believe that it has some meaning to it, and that Williams put more thought into it than was originally conceived. Primarily, one connection that I made was from a quote on page 162. Right before Stanley rapes Blanche, he states that they've "had this date with each other from the beginning". When one is on a streetcar, there is only one way that a person can go: forward. No matter what someone on the streetcar may do, they will always end up at their final destination. This could go to state that Williams believes in fate, or a one way street that, no matter what you do, you'll always end up on.
       Throughout his play, Williams was very specific with which songs should be played at certain times. I definitely believe that there is some reasoning behind it all; without having listened to each song being played overtop of each scene being read, I believe that I won't be able to understand Williams' reasoning behind it all.

Dornik

Monologue Review

All in all, I was greatly disappointed with my performance. For the next performance, I would simply go over and rehearse my monologue much more then I had for the previous performance; however, for the already completed performance, I got quite dejected the first time I forgot my lines. As an actor, I recognize that whenever I make a slight mistake, I know that the rest of my performance will not be "up to snuff" in my opinion, and therefore slightly give up on the performance. I think that this is all simply by virtue of the fact that I've always thought that theatre came easy to me, and thus thought that I could simply not rehearse for this performance as much as I originally thought. All in all, quite disappointing; however, I now know for next time, and will take this experience and learn from it.

Dornik

Monologue Review

1. Personally, I find that the apple exercise was one of the most fun exercises. I think that this was because it was one of the only ones we did as a game; however, I don't think that this exercise was one of the exercises I learned the most from.

2. I find that the writing exercises that have been most challenging are the reflections. I've always been terrible at reflections, so I don't find this a surprise at all. Also, I don't find that any of the monologue exercises have been challenging, but I think that that's because I've been exposed to theatre a lot, and am used to the ideology.

Dornik

Dexter Morgan

       I was Dexter Morgan. Of all the secrets that my mind held, of all the secrets that only I knew, there was one which was always the most important thing to me, one which would end my life should people find out. And that's quite a lot to say from a secret serial killer who works in Miami Homicide. However, my biggest secret, that only I know, is that, deep down, I don't want to be a serial killer: I want to be a musician. The only reason I kill is due to the fact that, after I first killed my brother, Brian, for almost killing my half-sister, Deb, I became addicted. All I really want to do, is move to Venice, Italy, and become a street musician. If I could do that, my life would be complete.

Blood Brothers Overview

1. All in all, I greatly enjoyed the performance. In my opinion, Shane Snow and Adam Charles did an absolutely amazing job portraying Mickey and Eddie as they were growing up. I also found that the play itself was quite depressing, but had it's moments that were comedic which stopped it from being a complete story about how Mickey and Eddie's lives are terrible, and that we should all pity them.

2. Personally, my favourite character is Mickey. I think that this is due to the fact that he's the character that's most similar to me; however, as he started to get older and older, and started relying on the pills to get through life, I started to lose my interest in him. Also, throughout the play, the Narrator stood out as a major favourite of mine.

3. In my opinion, the people who did the best acting jobs were Shane Snow and Adam Charles. I think that the way that they acted Mickey and Eddie as they slowly got older was simply brilliant.

4. Personally, my favourite aspect of the performance was the musical portion of it. I also greatly enjoyed how there were usually people sitting around or in the shadows. Other than that, I'm not entirely sure what this question is.

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Sam
~Sognare é Brillante~

Bad Acting

A few days ago, we had a performance at Arts Umbrella. Throughout the play, we lay down in several different spots, and were required to be "dead" for extended periods of time. Halfway through the performance, it dawned on me that I was in someone else's spot. Sneakily looking behind me, I saw the other actress sitting on a bench, facing the wall. I felt like the biggest moron ever for taking her spot, and making her sit at the back. At the intermission, I talked to her about it, and she asked what I was going on about. I realized that I was, in fact, not in her spot, and that she was at the back facing the wall for a monologue that happened soon after. And the performance went well and everyone lived happily ever after.

Sam
~Sognare é Brillante~

"God, I'm Beautiful..."

God I'm beautiful. I was just coming out of the bathroom the other day, and I saw myself in the mirror: I saw my beautiful blue eyes, and gorgeous dark brown hair, and got a sudden burst of confidence. I sprinted across the street to the nightclub, and started dancing like a priest at a LMFAO concert. It was insane. Then, due to my extraordinarily amazing good dancing skills and, no doubt my great looks, I met a few girls, got their numbers, brought a few of them back to my place, went onto my bed, and played monopoly. Life is great.

Sam
~Sognare é Brillante~