Here’s a look at six recent plays — four you can see now in New York, two to read, and all of them favorites of our critics — that reckon with the lives of working-class Americans and others facing economic anxiety.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
6 Plays That Reckon With an Anxious America
Here’s a look at six recent plays — four you can see now in New York, two to read, and all of them favorites of our critics — that reckon with the lives of working-class Americans and others facing economic anxiety.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this article. All six of these plays upon further investigation relate directly to how I feel following Trump's election. It is still fascinating to me how theater seems to repeat history and also shows what the future will hold. This is become very prevalent in my foundations of drama class as we go through many plays and discuss how they relate to how the country is feeling now. Plays like The Trojan Women and The Adding Machine all account for the emotions that Americans feel about being out of control with someone they fear taking the reins. It is plays like these and the six listed in the article that cares about what is happening in this country and what could become of it. It is true with the author said about looking in please and understanding why things happen. Plays can help us to understand but they can also teach us how to cope and move on which is so important in a time like this.
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