Play Summaries
One flew over the cuckoo's nest. Briefly Summarize the play.- It takes place
in
a mental institution where a new patient has just arrived. This patient
ends up
messing with everyone and creating chaos in the institution. Briefly
Outline the
Plot- R.P. McMurphy is a new patient at the mental
institution, he is a charming
devil, who wants to serve a very short sentence
in the mental institution
instead of a long term sentence in a prison. This
is a mistake, he suddenly
learns, for he runs into Nurse Ratched, who can
keep him institutionalized
forever. He ends up taking over the ward,
controlling the rest of the patients,
and to the astonishment to medical
professionals, he makes Chief Bromden, who
was presumedly deaf and dumb,
speak. He turns the other inmates into more
extrovert people by doing all
sorts of things, from playing games, arranging a
party at midnight, or even
staging a revolt so that the other patients can watch
the world series.
Afraid that McMurphy will become more controlling than she is,
Nurse
Ratched has McMurphy submitted to shock treatment. After he recovers, he
is
forced to undergo one of the worst 'treatments' for his final correction,
a
frontal lobotomy. However to save McMurphy from this, the Chief kills
McMurphy,
and escapes from the institution. List and Descrive the main
characters in the
play- R.P. McMurphy- Patient, very loud and obnoxious, very
controlling and
caniving Nurse Ratched- Very mean Nurse, likes to control all
the patients in
the institution, by any means necessary Chief Bromden- Deaf
and dumb Indian, or
pressumedly so. Identify and explain a key line in the
play- It's not
necessarily a key line during the play, its more of an
instance during the play
the sends everything spiraling down. During the
scene in which McMurphy has
finally pushed Nurse Ratched to her boiling
point, and she turns him to shock
treatment, then schedules a frontal
labotomy for him, which causes the Chief to
kill him, and get the other
prisoners to escape. Play Summary #2 Rent Breifly
summarize the play This is
a story that takes place on Christmas eve in New York
City. Where Mark, a
young filmmaker, sets up his camera. His roomate Roger, a
songwriter and
ex-junkie, struggles to pick out a song on his electric guitar.
The story
goes through a day in the lives of these two men. Outline the plot-
This
is a story that takes place on Christmas eve in New York City. Where Mark,
a
young filmmaker, sets up his camera. His roomate Roger, a songwriter
and
ex-junkie, struggles to pick out a song on his electric guitar. The phone
in
their place rings, and it is an old friend at a pay phone, but their call
is cut
short because he, Collins, gets mugged. The phone rings again, but
this time it
is Mark's and Roger's landlord who wants their overdue rent
money. Collins is
found beaten by a friend of Mark and Roger, named Angel, a
drag queen. Collins
and Angel find a strange attraction between one another,
and then find out that
they are both HIV-Positive. Roger, who is called by
Mark's ex-girlfiend,
Maureen, asking if he can help her that night with
some technical aspects of a
performance that she is to give later that night,
and he agree's. Collins and
Angel come to Mark and Roger's place,
inviting them to join him out for the
evening, Mark joins, but Roger doesn't.
Roger is then visited by a neighbor of
his, Mimi, who instantly takes a
liking to Roger. But Roger deflects all of her
come on's. He later finds out
that he and mimi share a secret and an illness,
their addiction to drugs, and
they are both taking AZT. Roger begins to take
greater interest in Mimi.
Later in the story Roger and Mimi have become much
more romatically involved,
so have Collins and Angel. But it comes to a tragic
end when Angel dies. And
when Roger later turns from Mimi and heads for Santa
Fe. Unbeknownst to
him, Mimi, who is now extremely sick, returns later to Mark
and Roger's
place. She now tells Roger that she loves him. And Roger, who has
finally
found his song, is able to play and sing it for Mimi. There is a
very
touching scene where Angel appears once again in a warm white light.
List and
describe the main characters Mark- Independant Filmmaker Roger-
Independant
musician, who is an ex-junkie, is also in love with MimiMimi-
Neighbor of Mark
and Roger, who was a junkie, and is in love with Roger.
Identify and explain a
key line- "I have always loved you" Said by Roger to
Mimi. It's his
realization of his true feelings, and through all the chaos,
and tragedy that
has happened this finally begins to set things right.
Identify and list any
special production requirements- Guitar Play Summary #3
The Jest of Hahalaba Sir
Arthur gets an alchemist to call upon the spirit
of laughter in order to be
granted a wish. It turns out that the spirit of
laughter plays a joke on Sir
Arthur that costs him his life. Outline the
plot- The story takes place on New
Year's Eve, where Sir Arthur
Strangeways has called upon an Alchemist, who is
shown in by Sir Arthur's
Butler, Snaggs. The Alchemist makes it rather apparant
that he does not want
to be there, but Sir Arthur is determined to get what he
wants. The Alchemist
knows how to call upon spirits, whether it be the spirit of
death, the spirit
of drought or in this case the spirit of laughter. However the
Alchemist
also knows of the dangers involved in this, for spirits loath mankind,
and
plot against them in every way that they can. Disreguarding the
Alchemist's
warning to specifically not call upon the spirit of laughter, he
does. But he
asks for a simple thing, a file of the Times newspapers for the
year of 1929.
This wish is granted by the spirit. And the spirit
disappears, but not before
telling Sir Arthur that the newspaper will
disappear within an hour of midnight.
Sir Arthur lunges into the papers,
going directing to the stock reports pages,
making notes of all the good
stocks to buy. The Alchemist all the while telling
him that he should not be
doing this, and even though Sir Arthur is telling him
that he will be making
millions, and even offering millions to the Alchemist if
he helps, he tries
to leave. Sir Arthur lets him out. He then returns to his
papers, looking at
the next days paper, he relaxes, only to find that someone
has written in the
paper the he has died. He first takes this as a joke, but
then he begins to
gasp for air, he then collapses and dies. Snagg's rushes in,
finds out that
Sir Arthur is dead, and calls up the Times newspaper, telling
them that Sir
Arthur has died. Main Characters- Sir Arthur Strangeways- Greedy
stockmarket
played Snaggs- Sir Arthur Butler Alchemist- Strange person who knows
about
the supernatural world. Hahalaba- The Spirit of Laughter. Key Line
"Be warned
Master, and have none of him" Said by the Alchemist to Sir
Arthur,
warning him not to call upon the spirit of laughter. This is
forshadowing the
end of the play on how it will not turn out to be good, and it
also makes Sir
Arthur want to call upon the spirit of laughter even more.
Identify and
list any special production requirements White powder- Needs to be
used for
the calling up of the spirit of laughter, it must be able to burn
quickly
when a match is set to it. Play Summary #4 The Traveler This is about a
man
traveling on a train, who is I believe somewhat of a successful
and
well-known man. He is greeted almost immediately by the conductor of the
train,
they begin a conversation. Outline of the plot Mr. Mercer is a
traveler on a
train. He gets on the train and is greeted by Morton, the
porter. Morton
introduces himself, and then Mr. Mercer introduces himself.
Morton recognizes
who Mr. Mercer is, and immediately gets the conductor of
the train. The
conductor comes and greets Mr. Mercer, and they begin a
conversation about
people they both know, and places they have both been to.
It becomes apparant
that the conductor, Mr. Barclay, is being extremely nice
to Mr. Mercer. As the
train nears its stop, Mr. Barclay gets up in order to
call out the stop of the
train, and Mr. Mercer gathers his things. As Mr.
Mercer gets off the train, and
says goodbye to his new friend, Mr. Barclay
takes a small address book out of
his pocket and writes "Mr. Mercer" a friend
of the company. Characters
Mr. Mercer- A traveler on a train, a
successful person Mr. Barclay- Conductor of
the train Mr. Morton- Porter on
the train Key Line I think it would be the
'"Mr. Mercer" a friend of the
company.' line. Because it gives the
whole story a bit of a twist, and opens
up the story a bit more. Requirements-
Scenery for a train.