My Experience of Watching Brownsville Song

本剧中Brownsville Song的表演风格和故事非常吻合，我同意一些评论家，缓慢的结局比突然结束的高潮之后的结局要好，另外本剧的演员表演非常自然和舒适，展示了良好而有独到的演技。

My experience of watching Brownsville Song

Normally this kind of ordinary-life conflict and depression is not my interest, and the worry of being bored stayed with me after the start of the play, Brownsville Song (The b-side of Tray), but it was not because it has a heart catching beginning, rather a false fire alarm. Thanks to the unexpected emergency, I was too nervous to worry about the boredom of the play when I sink in my seat again.

One special design that does not fall into an old track is that though Tray is the hero, the main focus of the whole paly, he is dead at the very beginning in the play另brownsville song (b-side for tray). Therefore, Lee has adopted a nonlinear structure to tell the story and the scenes moves back and forth through across timeline. At the end, the play is accomplished by the participance of the memories of Tray’s grandmother, and his sister. As their memories flashback and mix with their life after his death, Tray's last days and the ways his family moves on come out.

The story it is pretty well told. I have not expected this from a daily topic, which could be easily ruined by crude process from political preoccupation. It demonstrates that how can just-too-ordinary elements: American African children in Brooklyn, gun shooting, a commoner’s struggle write a good story. The lovely part of the story is that it does not run to a conclusion, blaming anyone for anything, and therefore makes an ordinary story extraordinary. It has two layers of conflicts. The first is that after Tray’s death, the public’s understanding of the event is that Tray himself is a part of the gangbangers. The hard reality is that even his family live in doubt. If the playwright Kimber Lee just let the story go this way, it would become a story of identity crisis, but she refused this simple solution. Lee took one more step forward. Her story has dimensions, which allow people see different messages from different sides. The second conflict of the story of Tray lies in another could-be-another-cliche character setting. In her wright, Tray is a gifted American African who does not let his own circumstance holds himself down easily. He has a dream to be a successful boxer, and for it he would have long-time trainings. Differ from the stereotype of black people, he is diligent and working hard in college. As a student of statistic, he is working a his way towards a scholarship. All these indicate that Tray is not a gangster, and rather he is an innocent child who spends more efforts to be good as he lives in a dangerous neighborhood. He wants make his family proud of him by what he will achieve. And this promising young soul also shows caring to his 9-year-old sister Devine whose misbehave mother left her for addiction. After all this small pieces were put together, I found that it is a story full of tension, dramatic and tellable.

Lee expand the possible space of interpreting a common story. It is a story of a family that lost its important component, of a young man lost the chance to see his dream come true, of the years problem occur in American African’s lives, and of a good person’s death. It did not just stop at fighting the stereotype of the all-too-common occurrence in Brooklyn, also not attempt to apologize to those people experience this kind of odd, but instead she tells a story, in a way that shows us sometimes everything could happen.
The staging, soundtrack, and costumes leave rather deep impression on me. In my opinion, they shows the effort behind the stage of the crew. Besides Lena’s tone tone-setting monologue along the 90-minute drama, the tonal atmosphere comes from the staging of Patricia McGregor. The staging that catches the soul of Brooklyn is a definite a plus. The back street views where Devine and Tray plays together, the green subway grate, the crudely furnished, or say unfurnished, housing, all amply leads me dive into my impression of their world. One set I love so much is that when Tray is practicing boxing, Divine plays with the brunches on top of a oil drum. The light pours on her cheerful face, and on the darker corner is Tray in tough training. The scene just touches me. Meanwhile, the soundtrack furthers the Brooklyn milieu. Their casual and street feeling costumes remind me from time to time a soup opera called Everybody hates Christ that also reflects the life of a American African family.

The acting goes well with the story. Though I agree with some critics that slow ending does not serve as well as just a sudden end right after the climax, the actors performances are quite natural and comfortable, which in my belief, shows good command of acting skills.

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