Never The Sinner - Production Critique :: essays research papers

This paper is a critique of a production of Never the Sinner, a mangle drama written by John Logan, which was performed and produced by the incision of Theatre and Dance at E.S. Strother Theatre located on the campus of clunk State University. Director Judy E. Yordon captures the viciousness and brutality of the murder of an innocent, young male child in this dramatic account of a homicide at the hands of ii young men who are intertwined in a dark, sexual relationship. During the murder and trial of the crime of the century the director and cast portray to the audition the sheer violence and torment these two men are involuntary to affect on another human being for the utter frolic of killing another person. This is done by exposing the events of the murder to the audience and hence allowing the audience to conclude the motive of the murder, by means of interpretation using the final scene as the keynote in the performance. I lay kayoed the last scene of the performance to be rather disturbing to assign the least.The performers in the production were very suitable for the roles in which they were cast. Dustin Bennett (Nathan Leopold) and Andrew Burt (Richard Loeb) were excellent in their performance and portrayed their characters well. Both ideally fit the roles in which they were cast. As for the other five members of the cast they to were well suited in their roles and showed more talent in their ability to portray different characters in the like performance. Especially that of Natalie Ellis who portrayed both a girlfriend and a remedy in the play and who easily adapted to her changing roles within the scene. The actors knew their lines of conversation and exactly what they were talking about, which made it easy for the audience to follow along. The actors could intelligibly be heard and had clear enunciation, expect during the scene of the trial, in which, the practice of law officer was on the stand. This was in part due to the fact tha t he was seated in an area beside the audience and it was hard to make out what he was saying because the audience was blocking him from my view. The voice the characters used was appropriate, peculiarly during the trial when the attorneys were speaking and when Germaine Rheinhardt was on the stand. The men were harsh, loud and assertive and Germaine mouth in her sweet, innocent and naive voice when answering their questions.