Extremities

Extremities The play Extremities focuses on something that is happing too often in America today. When a play is based on such a sensitive subject such as rape, the audience is expecting to leave the play with an unique message, that will is some way, shape or form widen their viewer’s knowledge. As a viewer I left the play with a feeling of disappointment. I was not only disappointed with the performance of the cast, but also with the tone of the play that was set by the reactions of the audience. While observing the play there would be scenes that were supposed to be important, but some people in the audience thought were humorous. I think this took away from my focus on the play and I did not receive the full message of the play. With the idea that a rape gone bad could escalate into a totally different situation for the rapist and the woman being raped was very clever. The overall presentation of the play was acceptable but the performances could have been better. Each actor played a substantial role in the play but the victim (Marjorie) of the almost rape stood play, raul, rapist, rape, one, message, tortured, overall, marjorie, friends, being, because, audience, whole, way, victim, took, today, time, subject, strong, raped, men, kept, incident, ended, been, almost, yourself, years, women, woman, widen, while, week