A BUNCH OF PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN AS THIS EXPERIENCE HAS BEEN EXPLORED THROUGH MYTHOLOGY, LITERATURE, ART, THEATER, DANCE, MUSIC, PHILOSOPHY, AND RELIGION
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
To be Human - One Act Play
Here is my One Act. It is a bit late as I was having formatting issues and difficulty ending it. Enjoy.
Your personal voice comes through very clearly in the characters! Much of the personality of the characters and their speech patterns hold a number of similarities to yourself, while their stories remain, for the most part, the same. You seem to have focused on the belief that suffering is an important part of being human, if not the nexus of our existence. The spin that you place on it, that suffering may yield good results or bad results is a very intriguing notion, one that is very much of the nature of Siddhartha. Throughout the play, I do wish that I had seen more character evolution, especially within the nature of the characters as described in the stories from which they came. There is a very positive aspect to your writing, which makes me wonder why Oedipus remains in the dark? He is also cast as being the character who steps back to put things into perspective, which makes the fate of Oedipus in this play a curious one. I do wish that Hamlet's witticisms had played more of a role. The characters, as a group, seemed to agree with one another most of the time, so perhaps a bit more of a contrast would be helpful? Nevertheless, you offer a unique approach to the central question of the play and I commend you immensely for it. Thanks for the read!
Abby, I very much enjoyed reading this play! I appreciated how your characters discussed the role of suffering in being human. I agree with the perspective you took that suffering is tied in very closely with what it means to be human. Which makes sense considering that if as humans we assume we have a greater knowledge of how the world works, suffering would be inevitable. I also liked the thought you presented that suffering is the piece of our experience as humans that allows us to better appreciate other aspects of our life. It is very interesting that as humans we need to have suffering to understand the quality of the lives we already have. Great work!
Abby,
ReplyDeleteYour personal voice comes through very clearly in the characters! Much of the personality of the characters and their speech patterns hold a number of similarities to yourself, while their stories remain, for the most part, the same. You seem to have focused on the belief that suffering is an important part of being human, if not the nexus of our existence. The spin that you place on it, that suffering may yield good results or bad results is a very intriguing notion, one that is very much of the nature of Siddhartha. Throughout the play, I do wish that I had seen more character evolution, especially within the nature of the characters as described in the stories from which they came. There is a very positive aspect to your writing, which makes me wonder why Oedipus remains in the dark? He is also cast as being the character who steps back to put things into perspective, which makes the fate of Oedipus in this play a curious one. I do wish that Hamlet's witticisms had played more of a role. The characters, as a group, seemed to agree with one another most of the time, so perhaps a bit more of a contrast would be helpful? Nevertheless, you offer a unique approach to the central question of the play and I commend you immensely for it. Thanks for the read!
Abby,
ReplyDeleteI very much enjoyed reading this play! I appreciated how your characters discussed the role of suffering in being human. I agree with the perspective you took that suffering is tied in very closely with what it means to be human. Which makes sense considering that if as humans we assume we have a greater knowledge of how the world works, suffering would be inevitable. I also liked the thought you presented that suffering is the piece of our experience as humans that allows us to better appreciate other aspects of our life. It is very interesting that as humans we need to have suffering to understand the quality of the lives we already have. Great work!
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