Enemy of the People

At first, I was dreading having to attend this play, I must confess. I live out of town and I did not want to have to drive into town just to see a play. I drove into Lakeland on Sunday afternoon and viewed the play at 2:30. I can honestly say that I am glad we had to view this play. I was very impressed with my peers who acted in the play. They all did an amazing job and got their point across.

A production such as the one we viewed, has a lot of work that is done behind the scenes. Our peers did an amazing job creating the costumes and even sets. The main set of the whole play was made into a living room of two different people's home and a newspaper room. One part of the room that stuck out to me was the opening in the center of the stage. In the first living room, the opening is double sliding doors. The newspaper room had the two sliding doors slightly open and they had a different color behind them. The second living room had a staircase in the middle of the opening and the steps were used during the town meeting. The last scene was back in the first living room and the little windows in the sliding glass doors were blown out by rocks. It's amazing how one opening can make or break a scene just by the different things done to fill the gap. Our peers also had to create the costumes. The drunk wore his clothes loosely and ragged. The people in the town meeting were dressed nicely as were most of the characters. They also wore jackets, indicating that it was cold outside. They did an amazing job at making the costumes match the characters and help create the scene.

My favorite quote of the play was said by the wife, "But what good is truth if you have no power?" This quote helped me create a stronger relationship with the main character because I understood how frusterating it would be to know the truth, but no one would believe you. This story reminded me of the life of Jesus Christ. He came to the world knowing that he was the King of all Kings and would one day save the world. Many people made fun of him, spit on him, and even ended up killing him. Even as he was hanging on the cross, he was still crying out to God. It probably seemed that no one was on his side but yet he still stood his grounds.