Play Review 1

The name of the play was Super Happy Funtime Burlesque. The author is the Super Happy Funtime Burlesque Comedy Troupe, and the theatre it was produced at the Croswell Opera house in Adrian Michigan. The play took place February 25, 2012. The Croswell Opera House theatre is a proscenium stage. Everybody in the audience was facing the same way. The stage also had a red curtain which was used to demonstrate the end of the show when the curtains were closed.
The plot of the story was set in the year 30,000 when the world was taken over by an evil dictator. The dictator imprisoned all people that sinned. The sinners that were imprisoned were put into another dimension. The remaining people started a rebellion against the dictator and eventually succeeded by killing him and his minions. The theme of the play was tragedy of losses and the war among different factions and how each faction involved in that war is affected.
The set was filled with instruments and props that were used to help the audience imagine where the scene was taking place. The set was not successfully implemented due to the use of the imagination it was hard to imagine where the scene was taking place. If there was a set they could roll onto the stage it would have been successfully done. The costumes were made to look futuristic with the costumes filled with glitter. In addition, in some scenes the concept was set in the past in which the costumes were made out of straw to convey a time in which clothing was hard to come by. Some of the costumes were made out of cardboard to symbolize swords. The costumes were done successfully because the costumes conveyed a futuristic look and contributed to the play very well. The lighting was unseen by the audience due to the use of a red curtain. The light shined on all the actors, never once did one actor have a single spotlight shine on them when they were speaking. The lighting was successfully done because all the actors on stage were seen well. The instruments on the stage were played to help the audience feel what the actors were feeling. In addition, the actors spoke into microphones when they said their lines. The sound was not successfully done because when the band performed when the actors were speaking it made it difficult to hear what the actors were saying. If the band did not play when the actors were speaking the play would have been better.
One performance element of an actor that stood out in my opinion was the dictator who broke the fourth wall and came into the audience. This stood out in my opinion because the actor came out into the audience and called the audience sinners which stood out as something that tries to engage the audience into being a part of the play. The choices that he made was to break the fourth wall by coming into the audience and become angry when the audience said no they were not sinners. The choices the actor made were successful because it engaged the audience more than just stating something onstage.
The play was not well done and very vulgar. I did not like the play due to the vulgar language and because of the band drowning out the actors. The production value was very low as props were used to help the audience imagine where the scenes were taking place as opposed to actual backdrops. The play seemed to engage new and old audiences because the audience was filled with older and younger people. I would not recommend this play to a friend because of the low production value and inappropriate language.