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The Reaction Attraction: The Chorus in Antigone
The Reaction Attraction: The Chorus in Antigone
By Samantha Sarafin, IV Form
Speak up. Move to stage left. Don’t turn your back to the audience. Annunciate and enunciate your diction. When the lights come up, you need to be onstage. Don’t miss your cue. Never forget – the most important part of acting is reacting.
A number of stage directions and phrases are repeated over and over that remain in an actor’s head. In the performance of Antigone, a play written by Sophocles, actors may regard “reacting” as the most important instruction, especially the (more…)
Awkward Moments on the Sixth Form Platform
By Jenny Deveaux, IV Form
As I walk out of the kitchen, nervously clutching my plate of cereal and clear plastic cup of coffee, I scan the dining hall at all the faces that are, as always, judging everything about what they see. I stroll over to the salad bar to pick up two knives and turn and to face my opponent: the sixth form platform. I strut down the aisle, trying not to make eye contact with anyone. “Let’s sit over there,“ says my friend, gesturing to one of the tables in the middle of the dining hall. I respond with, “This is gonna be so awkward,” and keep walking down the aisle as she peels off to sit down with some other girls and gives me a concerned glance. (more…)
“It’s Complicated”: Relationships in “Interpreter of Maladies”
By Marcus Permatteo, IV Form
In the short story “Interpreter of Maladies” by Jhumpa Lahiri, both Mrs. Das and Mr. Kapasi have complicated relationships with their families. Each has a spouse and several children, yet show unfaithful qualities toward their families. Due to these unfaithful traits, their love for their families is questionable. As the characters reveal their feelings in the story, however, it is clear that Mr. Kapasi loves his family more than Mrs. Das because he makes continuous attempts to save his marriage, he is faithful to his wife, and he continues to love his children. Mrs. Das does none of these things. Mr. Kapasi tried to save his relationship with his wife, while Mrs. Das did not. Neither Mr. Kapasi nor Mrs. Das have loving relationships with their spouses. However, it is clear that Mr. Kapasi tried for a long time to make things work (more…)
Interwoven Dynamics
By Torie Shakespeare, VI Form
Music achieves success in its ability to connect. People listen to music that they enjoy and select particular songs; those songs can unwrap feelings, replay memories, and attach to human’s lives. Music was prominent on this earth before language existed. It appeared as a primitive source of expression, and this simultaneous birth of musical expression and the human race is not a coincidence. It is a synchronicity, an event that cannot be explained by fate or concurrence, during which humans and music interwove with a significant connection. Due to their shared beginnings, people will always have a bond with melodies and song. When listening to my iPhone’s shuffle setting, synchronicity is found between each played song’s theme and how those themes relate to aspects of my life regarding my personal relationships, future, memories, individuality, and attitude toward change.
When I go to a dinner party or family reunion, the first question any adult asks me is if I have a boyfriend. For my whole life, the (more…)
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