The Giver Play

Surprisingly with the play being as minimal as possible, I believe that even though it had this downfall, I thought they pulled it off. There were some things though that made me a little confused and frustrated. When reading the book, you can imagine what is going on and figure out and sort of “see” how the apple is changing in the air. When you do this on stage in a production, it is overwhelmingly harder to show. With just using the sounds, it was very confusing to interpret the “changing” of the apple. Maybe if they had a light in a clear apple shape and pressed the light on at some point making the apple glow, it might have been way more interesting.
With only 7 people playing the parts of the production, The Giver, I was sort of bothered by the idea that the same girl was two people. They didn’t even have a costume change so it would be easier to tell the difference between the two characters. Also, I noticed that many of the characters were narrating the play too, which at first was very confusing and bothersome but I noticed that it helped a lot during the play to have those characters narrate what was going on because sometimes it was VERY confusing. When I read some of the book, I noticed that you need a lot of people to pull off this production and surprisingly I believe the people we saw, barely did for there was a lot of things that were hard to show without imagination.