Bushnell Review

Bushnell Review

The drama, Warriors Don’t Cry, really surprise me. The play shows me that people worked hard for all colors of people to be treated equally.  This is the first time for me to see a drama that was acted by only one actor. On the way to Bushnell theater, I thought this acting would be the same as every other drama I have watched: multiple actors, symbolic background, and colorful lights. At the beginning, I didn’t realize the whole acting only has one actor, and when she first started to say other character’s lines, I thought she was just making some flashback. Then minutes after the acting began, I started to think: “Maybe the other actors will appear later. Or maybe it is just because the prologue is a little bit long.” But no one appears. It was just her self. She kept talking in that hour and remembered all characters’ lines. Later, I started wondering: Who is the warrior? Does the warrior mean the soldier who protects her? The answer didn’t appear until Melba bowed, and made her voice sounds low in order to act her grandma’s role. From her grandma’s words, I know that the Warrior is Melba, which explains the title. No matter what you have experienced, no matter how harsh your life is, stand up from where you felled down. Be strong and go against those people who had bullied you. Another thing that really surprise me is that she uses the bench in many ways. In the whole stage there were only two main props: a bench and a desk. Usually a drama uses many props and background music to show how characters’ mood and environment that they were in change. But in this play she used only one bench to show all different environments. When she was going to school with her mom, she used the bench as a car. When her eye got hurt, she used the bench as a chair in health center. In the limited condition, one prop does not only has one way to use.