The same theater company is marking the 20th anniversary of that unparalleled run by taking the play on the road for five months. “The Beauty Queen” arrived in the United States in January for a five-city tour that includes New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Pittsburgh, Thursday through Saturday at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture.
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What really stuck out to me in this article is when the director says that the reason the characters feel human is because they do and say horrible things. I think this says so much about how the director views the world. Personally, if I was asked what makes people human, I never would have thought the defining factor is the bad things. Also, the idea that these people are ordinary people in extraordinary and extreme circumstances I found really interesting. In Foundations of Drama I, we were talking about how characters in shows are rarely like real people because real people have more complex desires and wants the characters. Another thing that I found interesting in these articles is that the New York Times critic found key and important differences in the show over time while others did not. Especially in a show that highlights humans by the negative things that they say and do, it’s surprising that a change in the comedy was only noticed by the theater critic. However, people who have been working on the show for the entire time may not have noticed this, as opposed to a critic who only sees the show a few times.
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