Well just recently I went to the play cripple of inishmaan. This play in particular made me realize how hard it is to pick up foreign accents. The jokes in this play relied partly on the accents and history of it's setting. I particularly noticed the accents in this play because it was one of the main things that could make or break the character portrayals. It's very hard to keep an accent like an Irish one for example for the full duration of the play. This is again where the audience plays an important part a well.. I bet that the actors and actresses didn't know that there was a group of students there as part of a class, Well prepared and ready to be critical... However we are not experts on the Irish dialect. I would assume that there were people of Irish decent that would have had a better eye for criticizing their accents.
All this brings me to a conclusive idea about the audiences role. They play an extremely important part in how they enjoy or even percieve the play... This might not be very clear but what I mean is that an audiences reaction relies heavily on who the audience is.... For example, if a group of high school kids saw a play and didn't read the script or know anything about the play then they will be surely less critical... But let's say they tool this play to Ireland for a performnce. Well I think it's safe to say that they will be way more critical of accents and jokes and everything.
So how can we even start to be generally critical... It's not possible. No matter what, we brin ourselves to the play... In our case, we bring a bag full of knowledge to the play. It heavily influences our criticisms and notions about the play. One of the things I found with this play was that I didn't quite find the jokes funny... I already heard them and laughed at them... On top of that.. I analyzed the jokes so much and their meanigs that when the performers delivered them, I could only snicker in happiness that they actually pulled them off....... Anyways, that's about all I have to say
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