Firstly, the play Appropriate was extremely well done. I thought the acting was really great and you could tell that they put a lot of work into it.
Secondly, the play itself was a little confusing and had so many different elements to it that made it both very interesting and also hard to understand. We talked about it after in my FYS (my teacher is the director) and she loved the feedback my class had. One student pointed out the foreshadowing of the little boy putting the lampshade on his head and then later in the play coming down with the KKK mask on his head and I thought that was an interesting point because both times, the child was just an innocent little kid who didn’t really know what he was doing but the adults knew exactly what that was supposed to represent. Professor Holland mentioned that in her view of the play, every time the cicadas chirped, it was supposed to represent another thirteen years had passed and I definitely did not pick up on that when I was watching it. I think it was an interesting ending as well when the house fell apart and was also supposed to represent the family falling apart with it because it shows the relationship between things that are important in our lives. Some parts I still do not necessarily know why they were in the play like when Franz walked down the stairs to the older cousin doing his thing on the couch or the relationship between the two cousins that was very creepy and I did not like that at all.
Overall, I enjoyed the play very much and I think some of the points about racism and prejudices were very powerful. It also puts an emphasis on family matters which is another important aspect.
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