Friday, May 14, 2010

Oedipus


Oedipus was the son of Laius and Jocasta, king and queen of Thebes. After having been married some time without children, his parents consulted the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi about their childlessness. The Oracle prophesied that if Laius should have a son, the son would kill him and marry Jocasta. In an attempt to prevent this prophecy's fulfillment, when Jocasta indeed bore a son, Laius had his ankles pinned together so that he could not crawl, and gave the boy to a servant to abandon ("expose") on the nearby mountain. However, rather than leave the child to die of exposure, as Laius intended, the sympathetic servant passed the baby onto a shepherd from Corinth.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

NINE TEN


In this 10 minute play there are several characters which are required to serve jury duty. All of them are pretty upset which must be the most boring thing ever and they are also pretty moody. Most of the play they are discussing and arguing until the court officer comes in and asks them to follow him while they are all trying to give excuses of why they can't be there.

BEAUTY


Beauty was a drama play that involved two girls which were entirely different but bestfriends. One of the girls always use to wish she could look like the beautiful one and the beautiful one would always admire the knowledge of the other.
All of the sudden the ugly one ended up finding a genie who wished to grant three wishes. The last wish she wished was to have the beauty from her friend. It was disastrous.

I DREAM BEFORE I TAKE THE STAND

I Dream Before I Take the Stand, by Arlene Hutton, is a short one-act (roughly 20 minutes) that is at once an aburdist drama and dream play of sorts. A woman dreams about the upcoming trial of the man who sexually assaulted (and possibly raped) her in the park one not-so-typical morning on her way to work. The piece focuses on the woman's subconscious and begs the question "Is the woman responsible for the attack against her?" and throws a critical eye onto court practices that allow such personal questions as what clothing the woman was wearing to be asked within the courtroom.
URL:http://theatre.wanderingchild.org/dream.html

This was a very interesting play in which you can witness how a good lawyer and his skills can change everything around in a courtroom, everything though if the defendant is entirely wrong.

Friday, April 9, 2010

JOSE RIVERA (TAPE DRAMA)

Rivera was born in the Santurce section of San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1955. He was raised in Arecibo where he lived until 1959. Rivera's family migrated from Puerto Rico when he was 4 years old, and moved to New York. They settled down in Long Island, whose small town environment would be of an influence to him in the future. His parents were very religious and he grew up in a household whose only book was the Bible. His family enjoyed telling stories and he learned a lot by hearing these stories. As a child, he also enjoyed watching The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits T.V. series. He received his primary and secondary education in the New York state public school system. In 1968, when Rivera was 12 years old, he saw a traveling company perform the play "Rumpelstiltskin" at his school. Witnessing the collective reaction of the audience towards the play convinced the young Rivera that someday, he too, would like to write plays.
URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Rivera_%28playwright%29

BOB DYLAN


Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Jim Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He has been a major figure in popular music for five decades.[2] Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was at first an informal chronicler, and later an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of his songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the civil rights[3] and anti-war[4] movements.
URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan

Bob Dylan had a lot of talent, because he was a singer, a songwriter, and also a musician.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Big Black Good Man


Big Black Good Man was written by Richard Wright in around 1957. Many of his stories are mainly about racial issues. In this story he shows good points of race, maleness, and also the nature of goodness. Wright grew his reputation of a outstanding American author with his mostly his first writings such as Native Son, Black Boy, and Uncle Tom's Children. Most of them are about black people and showing the lack of freedom in both the North and the South.