The Giver play

One of the scenes in the book that I found very important was when the plane flew over the town. This scene was important because airplanes weren’t allowed to fly over the community and it introduced the reader to the main character, Jonas. Also when that plane flew over the town, every citizen was frightened. I was waiting for that scene to happen in the play, but it never did. When the cast moved to the next scene I was confused and asking other people why they didn’t show the plane. I think what they should have done to include this part was to have a sound effect of a plane and have all the cast members look up and look frightened. They could have also had someone talking on an intercom telling everyone to run into their homes immediately, just as they did in the book. That is one of the changes that I would have made to the play if I was the director.

Another part of the play that I found odd was that they had the same actress for Fiona and Lily. This part of the play was difficult to understand because Fiona and Lily have two way different personalities. Fiona is a nice, sincere, young lady, and Lily is a whiny, loud, brat. When I saw the actress play Lily I liked how she played her personality, however when she went to play Fiona I couldn’t get the annoying, loud actress playing Lily out of my mind. Another flaw with this was that Fiona and Lily had the same color hair and the same style. This was confusing because when the actress played Lily and was loud I thought for a second that she was still Fiona. What I would have to done to fix this problem would be to get another actress to play Lily or Fiona. This change would make the play less confusing.