Monday, February 22, 2016
Scotch’n’Soda play is a new twist on a classic
The Tartan Online: Last Friday and Saturday, Scotch’n’Soda’s production of The Outsiders played at McConomy Auditorium in the Cohon Center. Based on a book by classic American author S.E. Hinton, the story explores themes of gang violence, youth, and social status.
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I saw this production and I thought it was one of the best shows I’ve seen recently. The acting was really believable, and the set was well made with a lot of nice touches to it, such as the fence. I also loved the costumes, especially Johnny’s costume and make-up. I would like to point out that Dallas wasn’t a lesbian as this article suggests. Dallas’s pronouns were “they/them” throughout the show, so though Dallas was obviously attracted to women, Dallas was not a woman. Similarly, this article keeps referring to Ponyboy as “he” but in the context of the production, if I remember correctly, Ponyboy was not just played by a woman but played as a girl, and therefore the pronouns should be “she.” Pronoun corrections aside, though many of the character’s genders were swapped, the show really didn’t make a point of it. To me it felt like they were just setting a play in a world where gender wasn’t particularly important. During the show, I didn’t really notice the genders of the characters, and I don’t feel like it was important to the play. What was important was the relationships between the characters and the situation of the world they are in, which was portrayed very well and very believably. Similarly, I didn’t even notice the “look alike” line or think about the racial difference between the siblings. It just didn’t matter for the story, and to me, though it was important that they casted the play in a gender/ race blind way, the races and genders of the characters were not relevant to the world of the play.
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