Belleville Amy Herzog

First, Abby uses manipulation to get others to stick to the story of that they were just dancing. She does this by threating Betty and Mary Warren's life so that she will do what she says. Abby says, “… I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy black reckoning that will shudder you”

Before reading this musical, I did not have good idea of what it was about. I thought it was a comedy in some ways, but I did not except it to be so dramatic. This musical touches on subjects that are very fragile. I did not expect the son to be a ghost, and to have died when he was younger, and he is a ghost in the musical. With the musical being so emotional, there is a lot of adult content.

Abby also stabs herself in the stomach with a needle and lies that Elizabeth used her witchcraft to stab Abby. The community believes Abby’s story because there is a poppet in Elizabeth’s house with a needle in its stomach. Since Abby already has credibility and has proof that Elizabeth is a witch, she is able to get Elizabeth arrested. With Elizabeth out of the way, Abby believes that she can get back together with John. The second reason why Abigail has great influence over Elizabeth is so Abby can prevent Elizabeth from spreading the truth.

Whenever a scene changed, they used the lighting to change the setting into a theme that fit the play. Another great thing that they did was adding additional sound effects when needed. For example they had sound effects such as knocking on doors, and sounds from the tollbooth. On the down side, I think that they lacked the amount of extra effects needed. They did do a great job on adding in the disco ball to wrap up the play, but I do think they could have added more.

But, this play has shown me the flaws in that society as the author depicts them such as abortion and homosexuality. I found the play to be somewhat difficult to follow along with because there were so many characters that were speaking especially in the first scene. The first scene depicts a chaotic business area as the clerks were working and the numbers are called out at a high speed. When we watched the video of the first scene in class, it made more sense to me. I loved the different ways the first scene is shown in the live play as the chaos is heard through the sounds and constant movement.

This will spark the main conflict in the play, and Abby caused it all because of her

The play provides both comedic and mournful moments. In the end of the play, it is deeply revealing of the powerful bond the women share. Robert Harling uses conflict, mood, tone, and characters to portray this. The title suggest that women are delicate like

Overall Abby possesses very powerful persuasion and almost every time she uses it; it is in the wrong way and prevents the truth from coming out and justice to be

In comparison to the movie, the play undermines male dominance by focusing on women’s efforts to solve their own problems. First of all, there aren’t even men in the cast of the play,

The directing point of the play was done in a real point of view showing the real life situation during the depression era of poverty and lack of human condition. From the lighting and box set standpoint it helps embodied the play. From the cues to onset lighting and background sounds to help fall in place the scenery of 1930 California. Each actor swiftly bounced back and forth to his or her lines showing the emotion of anger and destruct onto their face, to when they raised their voices when they screamed at each other. The exits on each character were smooth barley and unnoticeable helping them transition into each scene.

This makes the scene much more powerful because it is not a topic “conventional theater” usually does simply because it is not something people want to think about and Tuan is saying that even though it is uncomfortable, it is something that is real and needs to be addressed. And Tuan

Throughout the play scenes that arouse a high tension in the minds of the audience are followed by scenes that provide a sense of relief. The purpose of this construction is that "the contrast is required to bring out the full force of an effect. " The development of the conflict can also be seen as a struggle between two sides which may be

This creates conflicting emotions for the playgoers, as well as giving them a counterpoint of view on the characters. This is done by showing a difference in the character 's inner and outer conflicts, the decisions that they make, and the actions that they commit. Overall, these plays create conflicting emotions within the audience, and continue to a great on not only the audience, but the

Now he tackles the problem to be able to support his family. So this play is "a show about redemption. It’s a show about hope" which will influence others who have such difficulty to still have aspiration to face it. Another example is "Black Pearl Sings". The play is set in the 1920s when it was still the slavery era.

Though it was more of a loud and rocky kind of play they did a amazing job of keeping the rock and roll aspects going throughout the play. This play was a battle between who Gertrude wants to be and who she needs to be. Throughout the play Gertrude goes through her hole past telling you all the ba aspects of her life how he first marriage gave her a boy than she married again and her sweet boy didn 't want anything to do with her new husband. The main plot of this play is to not let your past hold you back from being who you can be. The story overall I felt worked well together though at times I couldn 't really understand what Gertrude was saying when she went on her rambling sprees.