Live Nativity Review
Submitted by arynamber on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Live Nativity Review
Live Nativity Observation
The December 12th performance of "Live Nativity Scene at St. Stanislaus, 7:00 Tonight" by Marty Duhatschek at the Rebel Alliance Theatre leaves much to be desired. An abundance of multiple simultaneous character interactions causes various scenes to be confusing. Individual performance also creates an unconvincing feeling of segregation between acting and what's really happening.
The play opens with many people at Fancy and Jack's house discussing the topic of what special event will take place to celebrate the Christmas holiday. The set consisted of a coffee table, a buffet table, a couch, and a couple of chairs. All the characters are actively moving about eating and caught up in multiple conversations. It was rather difficult to focus and pay attention to any one conversation and hear what they were discussing. All of the characters moving simultaneously caused the scene to be disorderly and confusing. This happened in various scenes.
There were instances throughout the play that the acting wasn't convincing. At the beginning, Marge seems to act too goofy and aloof. The bickering between Marge and Sela as well as Marge's struggle towards Sela as she's held back seems unrealistic. There was also a moment in the beginning scene where Pete was suppose to be mad and yet had a smile on his face for the duration. During the scene where the manger is being constructed, the characters take a tremendous amount of time fitting the wood together. They become quiet for a moment, whisper between each other, then start talking again as if they ran out of lines and began ad-libbing. Though it was clever to keep on acting, it didn't seem to be part of the script and seemed fake. In the ending scene where the Christmas play was being performed, there were so many mistakes and comical goofs that it was hard to decipher between intentional acting mistakes in the play to aid the Christmas performance or if they...
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