med. 12

As I said with Moliere, Sheridan should cut down on all the over the top fighting too. Don’t get me wrong, I liked it and it was very funny, I just think it would have been good without being over the top. All the gossip and backstabbing were funny, but there is already too much of that in reality for me to enjoy too much of it in a play. I like to try and make comparisons that relate the real world to the world that playwrights create for us, but I also enjoy to have reality suspended so that I can be in a different world, not be in high school again. The dialogue between the characters was clever and funny, most of the characters were ridiculously funny, and the plot was entertaining, but I think that when plays try to be too outrageous they lose their ability to connect with the audience. Its hard for the audience to suspend the reality if they can’t connect with the reality that Sheridan is providing for them.