This semester I took an LBST class on theatre. One of our assignments was to see a school theatre production. I saw Dead Man's Cellphone, written by Sarah Ruhl. I really enjoyed it and it left me thinking about life. I went straight home and wrote an essay on it and what I thought about the elements of it. I really feel like I wrote a really decent paper. I'm pretty sure this teacher never even read it, and that made me kind of sad because I wanted to see what kind of feedback I would have gotten. I think that the play really spoke to me about technology in the world and how it hinders our ability to live life. It was also quite entertaining, and I elaborated on the comic relief aspect for a paragraph. I explained things that I didn't fully understand about the performance, like the random dancers that would come on stage, and the weird fantasy realm that the main characters found themselves in. Those two things I explained, were in a "fantastical realm [that] is obviously not reality." But that was just my opinion and it might have been different for other viewers. I also talked about the minimal amount of props that were used. I thought it was really cool that the production was able to show so many interesting points without even using a lot of visual props. "It was amazing to me that with just a few things, an entire production was performed," I said in my essay, which I still think is a really good point. I suppose I like this piece so much because I spent a lot of time on it and really put a good amount of effort into making sure it sounded great.
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