For me, watching Endgame is an unforgettable experience. I did not expect that the play will bring me so much surprise. I thought it would be a play with good story and good actors, but the show goes beyond my thinking. The deep concept of the story, great performance of actors, and the hard works of the crew members present to us a wonderful show, and I find myself have so many things to learn.
Firstly, Endgame tells a story between a group of people to live in a shelter. The main character Hamm, his servant Clov, and his parents Nell and Nagg. They are living in a timeless world, where without hope. The stage is set up perfectly for all the conflicts of the characters. The main character Hamm is shown in a dominant character of the shoulder. He ordered Clov without reasons, that he tries everything he can to let Clov served him. As well as he deals with Nagg with a sugar, and gives a long monologue to make himself grateful. All those things make Hamm become the king of the shelter. But I think all these also show the loneliness, the weak and the fair inside of Hamm. Like Hamm talks alone at the end suspects that clov is not leaving, and says “the world is finally quite” Hamm is like an annoyed child that constantly want people’s attention.
On the other side, Clov is the servant of Hamm. Clov is shown as a weaker, powerless character in the play. Compare to Hamm, who is sitting all the time, Clov could not sit, like he repeats many times in the play, and he has to do all the things for Hamm. I remember clearly that Clov talks about he wants to order, he tries his best to create order in his world. He sorted all the things and he obeys the order that he could not sit. He is living in pain, because of weak. He has no courage to fight against Hamm at first because he does not have any hope. He is a very controversial character in my mind, he wants freedom, but he limited himself by all those orders he obeys.
After all, I see the play as a conflict between hope and desperate. And Hamm is the person has desperate, but he also wants hop. Who knows what he really thinks in his mind at last? Hamm might believe there is a child, so he argues with Clov and let him go out to have freedom on purpose. It is a character that from the beginning to the end control all the people.
In conclusion, the play is really helpful for me to study more about theater. The actors give me the example of what excellent actors are. More than this, the crew of the play also let me learn about how to let the setting fits with the play. I carefully watch the lights design, and I find out that the lights switch slightly every time to lead audiences to pay attention to the major character in the scene. Also, the director’s way to introduce the play is impressive. That the play begins with Clov uses a series of actions to let the audience have time to calm down, and ready for listing the important dialogues, which I consider as the most important parts of the play. During the beginning, the characters do not completely show their conflicts, internally, they tell the concept of the story. Like Hamm asks “What time is it?” Clov answers by “Like always, zero!” This clearly reminds the audience that the characters are in a timeless world.
It is a very well done play that makes I learn a lot. Overall those things, I know that to make a play on stage need a lot of hard works and it will not be easy. But the accomplishment after succeeding the play will be enormous.
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