Beneatha's Moment In The Sun

Hello and welcome to the last AP for my Humanities course, Drama. This is the last Action Project of my sophomore year. I am very excited to close this chapter of my academic career and move on to new things next year. In this year I explored many themes that all were centered around storytelling in some way. From the most literal way of creating my own creation story to writing our own short play. I was very challenged to make my writing better this year. That was very exciting to me because I  love to write. In this AP we were called to become a chorus for the play A Raisin In The Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. In Greek theater, a chorus is a group of actors who comment on something that is happening in the main action of the play. They do this by singing, dancing, or reciting a chant. In our version of the chorus we are calling out good, bad and educational parts of the characters actions in the scene of our choosing. Please Enjoy.





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Music Credit: BenSound Romantic Jazz

Excerpts taken from A Raisin In The Sun

The Impossible Question

Have you ever found yourself in a debate about feminism? Have you ever felt that there was no solution to the questions you both were asking? Well in our skit my partners GR , BA and I asked a question that we didn't find a "fair" answer to. Our guiding question was "should women use their femininity to gain success or power?" This question was based off of our two female characters Nora (played by GR) who at one point in her story came close to seducing money out of her close friend and Josephine Baker (played by me, TN) who is a historical dancer from the 1920's flapper era. We thought this question would be great with the contrast of the shy and timid Nora against the bold and confident Josephine Baker. This action project was really enjoyable for me since I seek a future career in theater/writing. We had the privilege of going to the Goodman Theater where we got feedback and notes for our work. It was really fun for me to write for Josephine Baker however, one of my proudest moments in the script is the ending monologue that I wrote for Nora. I feel that it really sums up the point we were trying to get across with this video.





Our Script

Taming of a Jerk

Hello and welcome to my first Action Project for my humanities class, Drama. In this unit, we read Shakespeare's  Taming of The Shrew and discussed the play from a feminists lense. The play was written in a time where women were seen as objects and it reflects that. For this AP, we were called to reply to one of the characters in sonnet form. I decided to take a stance against Petruchio the man who married Katharina.

Petruchio, you tamed a feral shrew.
some may congratulate and praise your name,
But, Petruchio know I chide at you.
Are you proud of your dreadful claim to fame?

Petruchio, you are an evil knave.
Thinking of you, nothing good comes to mind
Walk in the shoes of the girl you’ve enslaved
Maybe then you will grow your missing spine.

You say “she is my goods and my chattels”
Women are just as powerful as men
Is your masculinity so fragile?
Equality is the best way to win!

Sir, the way you “tame” is no comedy
You’ve made Katharina a tragedy