When I attended this play I was really excited to see a live play because it's been a while since I've been to a play. My church puts on productions for Christmas and ester which is the last play that I've really seen. I think it brings something to the storyline to see it live acted out and experience the actors in the living flesh. I was pleasantly surprised at what the cast brought to the story and quite grateful that I got the chance to go. As I sat and watched the play I was even more surprised to learn how much talent we had here among us at Southeastern. The cast did a wonderful job by bringing the play to life and really telling a story not only with their words and expressions but by their body language and facial expressions.
I went to the play not knowing anything about the story line at all and the only thing I really had to go off of was the quote on the front of the program. It read, "It is for my sake that I give her this doctor, and a good daughter ought to be delighted to marry for the sake of her father's health..." From that I made the assumption that the story would be about a daughter not wanting to marry a specific man but her family forcing her too which is along the lines of what happened. The father, Argan, was ill (which even that was questionable seeing as how his actual doctor at the time was a little on the mad/evil scientist side of the spectrum) and he got an offer from a man to marry his daughter off to a future doctor; which in his mind was a wonderful plan to ensure his treatments in life. But his daughter was in love with another boy she had met named Cleante. The daughter, Angelique, wanted nothing to do with this other boy because she was in love with Cleante who was a music person whom she had met and fallen for. The story goes on trying to get the father to understand that since he truly does love his daughter he should let her marry whom she loves rather than marry to suffice his needs in life.
I tried to put myself in her shoes and just really thought about how appalled I would be if my father tried to marry me off to a man just to ensure his health in the future. That is a horrible base for arranged marriage and is not fair to anyone in that situation. But in the end her father realizes how much he loves her and then they "trick" him into becoming his own doctor and life is all at peace and the two get married.
The play was very enjoyable in my opinion. I loved the casting of the play and the talent that shined out of it. The set was amazing how they used a doll house type setting where the house literally opened up when the scene was taking place within the house. The one thing that I thought was cute but really didn't understand was the extra dancers in the play. They were cute and the definitely added to the play but I didn't understand what they were representative of? They were an interesting addition to the play but I didn't really understand their role in all of it...
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