How Very Typical of You.

How Very Typical of You.

On the 29th September I had the chance to go to Sheffield Crucible and watch the play Typical Girls,  directed by Róisín mcbrinn. A play about 5 women who are in a specialised unit for convicted women. They have regular group meetings with 'Anna' , a music teacher who has been given the privilege to aid these women through music workshops, to express and define themselves. 

9669204094?profile=RESIZE_710xI'm going to sound just like everyone else but to experience theatre in person again was so exhilarating and refuelled my need and devotion to acting. I'll give credit to the actors and everyone that took part in the show. It was a good performance to watch but there was many unanswered questions. I did enjoy it, I laughed many times and the storyline had a lot of potential and I feel like they could have gone in so many directions with it. I appreciated the monologues and freezeframes to give background into the characters but over time it became repetitive and I found myself sitting there bored. I felt like I couldn't connect to the characters as much as I would like as there just wasn't enough time for them. It appeared to me they tried to squish to much story into a short play.

 

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Although, the play itself gave me signs of Brecht, so if that's the case and the director took inspiration and used him as a practitioner then the play worked well for what it was.

 

Photos By Helen Murray and Megan Neal

 

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  • Megan, you've got a really catchy title here, it made me want to read on! I like how you talk about how exhilerating you found the show, but also how you explained how you became disconnected from it too. I'm glad you were able to laugh and enjoy being in the theatre again! 

  • You have shown that you understood the play quiet well and also enjoyed watching something that you could somewhat relate to. i think that you have explained in lots of detail all aspects of the performance which I found was very helpful to read also.

  • Overall a very thorough review which gives readers who haven't seen the show a strong image of what it represents and how it does this. You also have a catchy, snappy title which incorporates the show title as well. You may want to consider your paragraph breaks, but apart from that... a very strong review.

  • Overall, a great blog! I love the use of the title of the play for the title of the blog, as well as the use of professional, and personal images! Something to note is a potential formatting issue, although we did look at this :)

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