"The Dead" Review

      It has been a long time since the last time I have watched our school's play. This is the first one of the year and I was surprised with some new players in the performance, it is also fun to see some new performance rather than people that have always been acting. First of all, I really like the setting of the play. It is more realistic and it feels like you are really inside the performance and inside the situation of each scenes being showed. The only cost of this creative setting is that, it is sometimes difficult to keep my head turning in a direction towards my back, I have to turn back and rest a little bit! However, it is a really new method in our school's play and it definitely took the backstage people more works to set up the stage. However, this is such a creative and fun way to connect and create a closer interaction between the actors and the audiences. 

      Second of all, I really like this play having a quote surrounding and giving a theme to the plot. It is also a quote, me as an audience, have an echo, resonance with. I believe that many other audience have this feeling, too. It is a quote that applies to so many situation in real life, which after watching this show and listening to this powerful quote being read by great actors, we felt understood and felt more connected to the emotions. 

      I also like a turning point on how the audience views Fraddy Malins, from a drunk, rude man to a courageous man with words of wisdom. At first, I thought this person is definitely a troublemaker and a disrespectful character. Oppositely, it turned out that his characteristic have reminded people around him that, they should not be restricted by others opinion, they should not take people's complain into their concerns and limit themselves because of it. It is always stunning when people find out great lessons on people that we thought wasn't acting like a typical nice and polite person. Overall, this is a meaningful play that I enjoyed watching.