Kekvit Irae
12-13-2008, 13:38
I am writing an essay for my college class on how the play 'Angels in America' (a required topic) is significant to the course subject, so here is what I have written so far.
I was not able to see AUM’s theatre production of Angels In America as I had planned to on Sunday due to my loaner car dying on me on the freeway. Therefore, I shall write a review about the play as I envision it, and write about its significance in this course’s subject.
Angels In America is an unauthorized sequel to the 1994 motion picture Angels In The Outfield, though it shares no similarities with the movie. The movie revolves around the plot of a mentally-challenged child who can’t get though his head the fact that his father is an abusive, alcoholic, Columbian drug-dealer. Therefore, the child petitions to some fictional divine being (called “God” in the movie) for the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series for some unknown reason. The movie itself is a fantastic subject when dealing with human rights, as it expresses the human right to be imaginative, since there is no chance in Hell that the Cubs would ever win anything in real life; we all know that “God” is a Braves fan.
The theatre production opens simply enough, with George Washington (played by Danni DeVito) singing show-tunes from Disney’s Duck Tales. Once the ten-minute opening ends, Theodore Roosevelt comes up on stage and starts French-kissing Washington. This brings to light the ever-burning question of ‘Is it a human right to be bi-sexual in a society that bans it?’ Eventually, they start discussing about how best to deal with the armies of both Great Britain and the Church of Scientology. Their discussion is broken up by explosions off-stage, signaling the arrival of the armies of the Unholy Union. This is a direct violation of the spectators’ human right to be safe and secure, as the explosions were as real as you can get. Once the audience was calmed down and George W. Bush assured the people that it was “Mission Accomplished,” the play got back underway. The act ends with George and Teddy going to dig up the body of Stephen Hawking (which is interesting because Dr Hawking is still alive in real life), and then proceed to have a roll in the hay with the now-zombified corpse. They literally do have a roll in the hay; George, Teddy, and Zombie Hawking all get down on the haystack and start rolling around like a child rolling down a hill. This brings to mind the human right to choose abstinence.
Note that everything is supposed to be BS. I figure that if I'm going to fail, I'm going to fail spectacularly. Any ideas on how to proceed with Act 2?
I was not able to see AUM’s theatre production of Angels In America as I had planned to on Sunday due to my loaner car dying on me on the freeway. Therefore, I shall write a review about the play as I envision it, and write about its significance in this course’s subject.
Angels In America is an unauthorized sequel to the 1994 motion picture Angels In The Outfield, though it shares no similarities with the movie. The movie revolves around the plot of a mentally-challenged child who can’t get though his head the fact that his father is an abusive, alcoholic, Columbian drug-dealer. Therefore, the child petitions to some fictional divine being (called “God” in the movie) for the Chicago Cubs to win the World Series for some unknown reason. The movie itself is a fantastic subject when dealing with human rights, as it expresses the human right to be imaginative, since there is no chance in Hell that the Cubs would ever win anything in real life; we all know that “God” is a Braves fan.
The theatre production opens simply enough, with George Washington (played by Danni DeVito) singing show-tunes from Disney’s Duck Tales. Once the ten-minute opening ends, Theodore Roosevelt comes up on stage and starts French-kissing Washington. This brings to light the ever-burning question of ‘Is it a human right to be bi-sexual in a society that bans it?’ Eventually, they start discussing about how best to deal with the armies of both Great Britain and the Church of Scientology. Their discussion is broken up by explosions off-stage, signaling the arrival of the armies of the Unholy Union. This is a direct violation of the spectators’ human right to be safe and secure, as the explosions were as real as you can get. Once the audience was calmed down and George W. Bush assured the people that it was “Mission Accomplished,” the play got back underway. The act ends with George and Teddy going to dig up the body of Stephen Hawking (which is interesting because Dr Hawking is still alive in real life), and then proceed to have a roll in the hay with the now-zombified corpse. They literally do have a roll in the hay; George, Teddy, and Zombie Hawking all get down on the haystack and start rolling around like a child rolling down a hill. This brings to mind the human right to choose abstinence.
Note that everything is supposed to be BS. I figure that if I'm going to fail, I'm going to fail spectacularly. Any ideas on how to proceed with Act 2?