Shifting from a hard-pressed to a sarcastic tone in "Suburban", John Ciardi utilizes playful allusion, unusual personification and neighborhood satire to convey the trials and tribulations of living in surburban America.
Performance 1. The meaning of the play was different than the original play. The group was somewhat prepared when performing, but could have been more on task. I enjoyed some of the scenes because they were entertaining. The other group members were talking when not performing, which made it hard to focus. I liked the overall context of the play, but the performance could have been more prepared.
I liked how most of you kept up with the accents for the entire play, but it was very long. You did not have to modernize every single sentence, but I did like the different southern saying that you included. I think the accents and the terms, however much they added to the effect of the modernization, took away from the ability to understand what was actually going on. Most of you didn't much ownership of your parts, but Amanda did pretty well.
Group 1: Overall, you all followed through with the story pretty well. Mike was pretty halarious with the dialouge. It was also funny when you guys kept saying "fry my hyde" over and over again. It was hard to understand what you guys were saying at times though because you were laughing and using the hillbilly dialogue. Some people would talk when it wasn't their turn, and it was hard to concentrate on the people that were. It was also a bit long as well.
Performance 1.
ReplyDeleteThe meaning of the play was different than the original play. The group was somewhat prepared when performing, but could have been more on task. I enjoyed some of the scenes because they were entertaining. The other group members were talking when not performing, which made it hard to focus. I liked the overall context of the play, but the performance could have been more prepared.
I liked how most of you kept up with the accents for the entire play, but it was very long. You did not have to modernize every single sentence, but I did like the different southern saying that you included. I think the accents and the terms, however much they added to the effect of the modernization, took away from the ability to understand what was actually going on. Most of you didn't much ownership of your parts, but Amanda did pretty well.
ReplyDeleteGroup 1: Overall, you all followed through with the story pretty well. Mike was pretty halarious with the dialouge. It was also funny when you guys kept saying "fry my hyde" over and over again. It was hard to understand what you guys were saying at times though because you were laughing and using the hillbilly dialogue. Some people would talk when it wasn't their turn, and it was hard to concentrate on the people that were. It was also a bit long as well.
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