six degrees of seperation
The Theatre department at Stony Brook University recently reenacted John Guare's play Six Degrees of Separation. These talented young actors and actresses did a truly fabulous job ofpresenting each of the individual characters and their personalities. Although there were a few minor mistakes along the way the play turned out to be quite funny, which was entirely unexpected and appreciated by the audience. Given the lack of budget that a state Universities theatre department has the lighting and prop design done for this play was wonderful. The furniture in the upscale apartment of Ouisa and Flan was both contemporary and elegant. So to the costume design was eloquent, simple, and highly representative of the time period. There were over 100 lighting cues in this production, which created a wonderfully enhanced mood. For example when Ouisa and Flan find out that Paul is gay and later when he is taken
The music in this production played a rather large role in the delivery of emotion to the audience. When Paul gives his speech dealing with "imagination is the place we are all trying to get to" the music in the background is conducive to the theme of triumph. Again when the kids in the play make an entrance, late 80's rock is played to annunciate the attitudes of these anti-disestablished youth's. All in all the music production that followed the scenes in the play were on time and properly conveyed the moods of the characters. Certain mistakes are made by the actors during the course of the play that are minor but meaningful, such as Paul's and Ousia's inability to speak clearly, which is what these upper-class characters are noted for. The business on the stage needs to be carried out in an upper-class manor, and when Paul adds ice to his wineglass with the chilled wine already in it, this represents ignorance. A character by t
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