Jocasta is the Queen of Thebes, but the title isn't as wonderful as it seems. By the little backshadowing the play provided, it seemed that Jocasta’s marriage with her first husband, King Laius, was happy. Until she found out about a prophecy that destined her husband to be killed by her own son and then she will marry the murderer himself. The couple were frighted by the prophecy so when their son was born, they abandoned him. They then went on with their lives, hoping to the gods that the vision was false but to only be wronged later on. Years later, King Laius was killed by ‘‘a band of thieves’’ or so everyone thought to believe.

However thanks to our upper hand we know that, that ‘‘a band of thieves’’ was actually Oedipus. During the play, it showed Jocasta as critical towards the vision. In fact, during the play we see her praying to the God Apollo (god of prophecy and oracles, healing, and the protection of the young), and making offerings, asking for his protection. The play shows her more as a maybe more saintly character. Jocasta in this version of the play wore a blue mask, maybe a marble blue color. From what I remember her cheek bones stood out and that she had an almost permanent frown on her face. That maybe could’ve been made that way to tell the audience that she had a stressful few years. Jocasta is Queen to most, has 4 children (excluding Oedipus), and had married twice. Jocasta was after forgiveness in the play. She wanted forgiveness because she abandoned her son, Oedipus, and left him to die.. all in fear of a prophecy she hoped was false. She lived in fear that the prophecy was somehow true and that she had actually married her son. When Jocasta found out that the prophecy had came true, she fell into a deep shock and decided that suicide was the only way to get away, so she hanged herself. Her hanging symbolized her despair on how she loved Oedipus in an intimate way but also in a way a mother could love her child.

The actress Amie Cazel, who portrayed Jocasta used her body to make the role her own. In real time, Ms.Cazel is pregnant and used that as an advantage for her role for Jocasta. Whenever Jocasta spoke, you could hear the sorrow and despair in her voice like she was actually Jocasta herself! I strongly agree with Ms. Cazel’s interpretation with Jocasta. She made Jocasta feel like one of the most realistic characters in this play. Also, I felt as If Ms. Caza’s acting was a mixture of both realistic and stylized acting. The scenery slightly reinforced the theme of the play to me. I in all honestly, just couldn't get into the scenery. The change of lighting could be barely seen because there was a bright harsh light on top of it, fading almost all the colors out. Although the costumes to me were the things that stood out to me the most.

The characters costumes and mask were the only eye catching thing about the performance to me. The music that accompanied the play was good though. And the actors used the stage area very well. Them walking around seemed to catch my attention every now and then and picked back up my attention span. I felt that all the activities we did in drama somehow connects to this production…learning how to block, putting emotion into our lines, remembering our lines, actually acting out our lines..etc. I liked the costumes, the music, and the mask of the play. I disliked that there were so much dialogue between scenes and not a lot of action. If I could have done the production differently, I would add more action between scenes, changed the backdrop for the setting, and make the light work a bit more dramatic and colorful. I believe overall the production was successful.