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Critique of the play Effects of Gamma Rays

Critique of the play "Effects of Gamma Rays"

On Thursday April 11, 2002 the play, The Effects of Gamma Rays was performed in the Macfarlene auditorium at Utica College. The play was performed from April 11, 2002 through April 15, 2002. This play was written by Paul Zindel and was directed by Marijean Levering, a theatre teacher at Utica College. The play is another spin on the typical dysfunctional family. You have Beatrice, the unhappy mother whose hatred for life and its disappointments has led her to randomly torture her two daughters, Ruth, the crazy, starving for attention 16 year old who suffers from convulsions due to an unexplained breakdown, and Tillie the plain, brainy one who seems to tolerate any amount of nastiness and rejection without batting an eyelid. They are a very low income family due to Beatrice bringing in relatively close to $100 a week. The mothers’ problems and disappointments are really the catalyst that sparks controversy between the family members.

The part of Ruth was played by Jessie Dawes. She plays as a pretty, self centered, boy crazy teenager. She craves attention all the time. She does anything in her power to get people to pay attention to her. If they do not she tends to throw a fit. She is in high school and has obviously not been married. Since she does not have a job she is not looked at as being high in economic status. However, her social status seemed to be relatively high. She seemed like she had a lot of friends and was a likeable character.

The character of Ruth wants many things. What she wants most however, is to be the focus of everyone around her at all times. She wants this as mush as possible. She attempts to gain this by wearing a lot of makeup and dressing in tight, form fitting clothes. She uses body language and a loud distracting voice in combination wit the other factors. An example of this is when she comes home from school and immediately starts yelling around the house about her day and throws her body around in order to grab anyone’s attention that is around. Ruth never really allows Tillie to tell their mother about her science fair project because he...

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