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Play Critique/Production Essay Guidelines

'Taking Steps'
by Alan Ayckbourn

Directed by Mark Ramont
Hallberg Theatre

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'Tis Pity She's a Whore'
by John Ford

Directed by Kyle Cooper
Young Theatre

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Disney's The Little Mermaid

Richard Odle, Honorary Underwriter

Corey Hirsch, Music Director
Karl Warden, Choreographer
Directed by Eve Himmelheber
Little Theatre

The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde
Directed by James R. Taulli
Young Theatre

Critique Guidelines

Choose one of the previous plays and in the paper you need to cover ALL the following areas: acting, directing, design (set, light, costume, sound, hair and makeup). With all of these areas, talk about what you found was effective and ineffective. Who stood out to you and why? What was effective or ineffective about them? What about the show was a whole? What was the message of the show? What themes did you find in the show? THIS IS NOT A PLOT SUMMARY. I do not need or want you to just talk about the plot or give me a play-by-play of the show. I saw the show as well. You can touch on the plot, but I am much more interested in your opinion of the show (and all its various aspects). Also, you cannot just refer to someone by their character name or their title (director, designer, etc.). You are expected to give credit to the actor, director or designer by using their name, which must be spelled correctly (or at least how it was spelled in the program). You will LOSE POINTS if you do not do so. You will also lose points if you do not talk about the acting, the design AND the direction!! PLEASE BE AWARE – The designers are listed at the TOP of the program, and will say something like “Light Designer … Matt Schleicher”, etc. Do NOT list the Design Advisor or Crew Members. These people did NOT design the show, and you will have points deducted from your paper for incorrectly listing this information. In your paper, don’t forget YOUR reaction and to the performance itself. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART! How do you react to this play? How does the message of the play affect you individually? Discuss directorial choices, design choices, acting choices … anything that you had a reaction to. Be as specific as you can be, and use specific examples from the performance to illustrate your point. You don’t have to love the play or even like it, but you need to be able to support your arguments. So just saying “I loved this play” or “I hated it” or “it was all right” won’t cut it – tell me WHY you are having the reactions you are having. Each paper will be 700-1200 words long, MAXIMUM of 1200 words. This paper is not a just plot summary or a book report. Plot is very important, but it is only one of the many areas you need to discuss. I want to hear YOUR reactions to this performance.

If you do not give credit to the designers by name, you will automatically have TEN POINTS deducted from your grade. Mentioning only some of the designers but not all when then incur a partial deduction. If you do not give credit to the director by name, you will automatically have EIGHT POINTS deducted from your grade. If you do not give credit to the actors by name, you will automatically have FIFTEEN POINTS deducted from your grade.

NOTE: This does NOT MEAN that you have to talk about EVERY SINGLE ACTOR in the show. Some of the shows have 30 actors – you do not need to talk about them all.

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Running head/ the importance of being earnest

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
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Running head/ the importance of being earnest

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About the play the importance of being earnest, the acting was done good more so by
some of the actors who played their part very perfectly. Some of these actors include; jack
who is living in two different places whereby back at home he is known as jack and back at
Paris he was known as earnest. He is so funny, determined to get whatever he wants to, also
ALGY he is another actor who plays a major role in the play who is very stubborn in
character, likes disturbing and arguing with jack or earnest as known in Paris, also lady
BRACKNELL is another major character in the acting whereby she is so strict and dictating,
rude more so to earnest back in Paris. Generally, the acting of the play was fantastic since the
characters were much determined, had good voice projection, the conversation was fluent and
no overlapping was evident. Despite the above effectiveness, there were several ineffective
acting which was seen this included; when Dr.Chasuble and miss prism appear from far end
as ALGY and Cecily disappear the voice projection was unclear and the actions were
somehow different and did not match, also when Gwendolen goes to Paris and meets with
Cecily, thus each them confessed that earne...


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