Review of Fall Play

Christeena Aaron

Mrs. Guarino

Acting

Review of the Fall Play

On November 10, 2016 I went to see the Cheshire Academy production of James Joyce “The Dead”. The kids did a great good performing their characters. I enjoyed the play a lot. It was nice seeing John act out what we had been working on in class to his fullest potential. I was seated with Linda and Michael and we all had fun watching the unexpected twists in the story.

I liked the dancing and singing the most I think out of everything. In those scenes, you could tell the performs were having fun and showing off their talents. I liked how fast the intermission was, it felt like barely five minutes had passed before the second act. I wish there was food during the intermission. I couldn’t see every scene and not just because of where I was sitting. I liked the eye contact the actors gave when performing a serious monologue. It gave the scene more emotion and depth. I was shocked to find out that Aunt Julia died. She was a joyful presents on stage. That was heartbreaking to me, I was hugging Linda for a while after that. When John’s wife  was still in love with her dead ex-boyfriend I only felt bad for John for some odd reason. The whole acting class was very proud of John and was hooting and screaming when it was time for his curtain call.

Sometimes during the show it was hard to hear what people were saying so maybe the volume of voices could be louder. So blocking with furniture made it hard to see people's faces. It was shorter than I expected but still jammed packed with action and dialogue. For my first Fall Play at cheshire Academy I was impressed with what the Black Box theatre itself had to offer. I was worried about it being to small but it was the perfect size.