As I have now read the Playhouse Creatures, written by April De Angelis, I feel that it might be a good idea for me to write a simple reaction to the play, discuss some things that I might not have completely understood and things that I especially liked.
To write a short synopsis of the play, it shows the lives of women aspiring to become actresses in the 1660's. It is a very feminist play, since it purposely focuses on the female characters, only having a couple of men shown in the scenes. What I especially like about reading this play, and am excited to start working on, is that all of the characters are well-rounded with complex emotions throughout the play, something that is very hard to find for such female-dominated plays still these days.
I really enjoyed Mrs. Farley's character, since she had a large range of emotions in each of her scenes and she seemed like a complex person to play. She was an especially ambitious character, doing anything to get further with her career. Also Mrs. Marhsall's character caught my eye, but I am not sure why. Perhaps her contrast to Nell Gwyn and Mrs. Farley, two young whimsical women, as to Mrs. Marshall being more poised and mature.
The beginning of the play was a bit hard to understand, since it kept jumping from flash-forward(?) back to the story. I think I need to read the play again, and really focus on figuring out what does the rapid change in set mean. It might be, that the parts with this character Doll Common are from after life, or something else that sort.
This play definitely needs a lot of research done, about the time era and the characters, since pretty much all of them are based on real life characters. I can't wait to start working on a character, thought, since the play seemed to have loads of interesting bits to analyze!
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