Essays on Play

One of the things Thornton Wilder does intentionally is having the theme that time passes by, and that everyone should cherish life in the moment as they live it. At the beginning of act 3 page 854, the Stage Manager walks out on stage, with...

The Flick follows the workplace relationships of three underpaid move theater employees while they struggle not only to make a living but to find their purposes, their lives and their identities inside of the jobs that belittle their self-worth. The three main characters of The...

The primary objective of this text will be to look at play as tool for learning under. The definition of play can vary as there are many perspectives of what play is defined as. The Aistear curriculum framework has a simplistic view that play is...

I had the pleasure of seeing one of Robert Harling’s wonderful plays, Steel Magnolias, directed by John Burke, and assisted by Anthony DeFilippo. The play was performed in Lauren K. Woods Theatre in West Long Branch. I liked the theatre in which the stage is...

The popular Broadway musical “The Addams Family” was brought to the Stone Theatre and reenacted by the talented students of the theatre department. The play goes through the unusual and bizarre life of the Addams family. The artwork displayed on both sides of the play...

Being completely immersed in a task at a given moment with an energized focus and curiosity is characteristic of us “living in the now. ” In this very moment, we are transfixed in a manner wherein the heightened levels of attention allow us to process...

A key component of play therapy is the counselor’s ability to provide therapeutic responses that come through play in the form of reflecting and tracking what the child expresses, both verbally and non-verbally. The therapeutic relationship between the child and the therapist helps the psychologist...