{"id":48,"date":"2018-10-29T21:08:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T01:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/?p=48"},"modified":"2022-06-03T10:12:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T14:12:26","slug":"fools-by-neil-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cedarville.edu\/studentlife\/2018\/10\/29\/fools-by-neil-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"Fools by Neil Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A few weeks ago, I got the pleasure of attending the Cedarville University theatre department\u2019s fall production, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fools<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Neil Simon. It was my first time going to a theatre production here since freshman year. I also helped out on the stage crew of a play my sophomore year, which was a really cool and unique way to help around campus. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I went to the play with a few of my friends, including my roommate, James, and his fiancee, Tasha. We had a very enjoyable time. One of my Cedarville industrial design major friends from Columbus, Hannah, even came to Cedarville to watch it with us! <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fools<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a play set in the late 19th century, the lead character, played by my former hall mate Jeremy, is Leon Steponovich Tolchinsky, a school teacher who travels to the small Ukrainian village Kulyenchikov. He does this to become the private instructor for Sophia Zubritsky, a girl in this town, after seeing an advertisement for the job in a newspaper. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What the newspaper ad didn\u2019t tell him is that the entire village is cursed with stupidity. This is the challenge that Leon must face: Does he stay in town and deal with the stupidity of all the townsfolk in order to spend more time with the beautiful Sophia? Or should he take the easy route out and jump on the first train out of Kulyenchikov? Will he break the curse? Will he himself fall under the curse of stupidity?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The telling of the tale was a skillful and humorous one. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fools<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a comedic play that often breaks the fourth wall, which is an aspect in theatre that I greatly enjoy. \u201cBreaking the fourth wall\u201d is the concept of actors in a play or musical interacting with the audience. By doing this, they are breaking \u201cthe fourth wall,\u201d the invisible wall that usually exists between themselves and the audience. The actors and actresses were able to play up the stupidity of the characters to great effect. The prowess of the actors was pretty impressive. I\u2019ll admit, I\u2019m not impressed by many theatre productions, as I am a pretty skeptical guy. But, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fools<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was excellent. It\u2019s pretty apparent that the University has a quality program. I am excited to go to the rest of the plays in the season, and I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll write about those as well!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Till next time!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few weeks ago, I got the pleasure of attending the Cedarville University theatre department\u2019s fall production, Fools by Neil Simon. 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