Response To Andrew Case's 'The Rant'

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Eric Simpson Professor Shannon Walsh Theatre 1020 26 October 2016 The Rant Script Response 1. The setting of Andrew Case’s The Rant, is one that is constantly changing despite the sequence of the play. Although the play doesn’t fade to black to change the setting as seen in most plays you see, the locations and scenery change in front of you without a break in character dialogue. The setting starts out with many calm and sullen environments such as the murder scene and the office building where the interrogations are being conducted. As the audience is directed to the different rants you see a pickup in the setting. You feel the pace begin to pick up and you almost feel like you are being pulled in several different directions. Time …show more content…

In this play, there are a lot of social elements at work within the structure of the community it takes place in. There is a social dynamic between the people police and the people. An example of this would be the officer who shot Benji. We don’t know exactly what happened but the entire incident seems to be put under a microscope due to the social prejudices that are underlying issuers in this community. The audience is also left wondering and trying to fill in the caps about what is happening as well as trying to learn the whole truth from the fragments of evidence they have. We as an audience must decide who to believe and what the truth is. The power of the play seems to stem from the community. They incite fear and chaos through the implementation of the mob mentality. They band together and create fear that most of the characters feel in the play such as Ms. Mahnaz when they threaten her. However, the biggest power struggle in the play comes from the oppression of a minority group by the police officers. This is an issue that many people believe in happening today so it makes the play seem more relatable to the reader, or at least it did to me. There seems to be division in the play between the officers and the minority community and I think that stems from a feeling of superiority from the officers over the people they are sworn to protect. Ms. Mahnaz may have started looking for the truth to find closure but instead was probably prompted by the feeling of inspiring change within her

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