As I decided to attend the Daytona State College theatre to watch Reasons to Be Pretty, I chose to go on Friday because the show starts in the evening. This would give me a great idea about the audience in the evening compared with the audience during the day with a show, Almost Maine, I have seen last month. I came to the show more than 30 minutes early to reserve a seat because the theatre was small- as I was told by my instructor. I entered the theater and sat in the back, but because the theatre was very small, I felt that I was very close to the performers. The stage was very well set for the first scene with bedroom set, some clothing, and nice calm lighting which make you feel as a part of it. I was surprised to see that about half of the seats were filled, and the audiences were mixed of elderly people and young ones, and some of them were dressed really well while others were not.
The light went off and the show started with a loud scream by one of the actors that shocked some of the audience sitting next to me. As the show started, the performers started using bad and foul language all through their acting. This was shocking experience for some of the audience next to me. They decided to leave the show and never came back. By the middle of the show, most of the audiences were gone because they did not expect to hear so much fool language. I noticed a group of the audience was laughing too much on every action in the play, but I found out that they were friend with the performers, and it seemed to me that they laughed so loud to encourage other audience to laugh.
One man was sitting next to me, asked me if I was the director because he saw me with a pen and a notebook taking notes. I told him that I was a student from this college and I am here for a homework assignment. I asked him if he likes the play, he said he did but it has too much of bad dialogue. At the end of the play the audience praised and applauded the performers for their efforts and for their outstanding work.
I discussed the play with my husband when I got home and how the performers acted and the audiences responded. Being from a different culture, my husband explained to me that this play was really realistic. This play examines the Americas passion and obsession with the external beauty and looks. Not surprisingly discusses deeply the techniques and mechanic of the Americas language and how they speak with each other. Therefore, I believe that this play had so much effect on me because I felt the connection with the performers regardless of bad language used. This play lays a hand on all us as individuals to act maturely and to handle our consequences wisely.
