Chad Deity

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, by Kristoffer Diaz, is a dramatic comedy that challenges the culture of media in the wrestling industry. This play highlights how hard it is to pursue the “American Dream’ in a discriminating country. The play is told mostly from the character Macedonia Guerra’s, also known as The Mace, perspective. He is described as a fall guy for the main wrestling star Chad Deity. The Mace is actually an excellent wrestler, but he is forced to lose to Chad Deity to please The Wrestling's owner and the Audience. This play incorporates the techniques of Bertolt Brecht by confronting and angering the audience. This play is also shows an example of Postmodern Theatre by discovering and then challenging a social problem.
Some of the goals of Postmodern Theatre that are applicable to this play are to break down the borders between character and spectator, to discover and challenge the discourses of power, and to focus on cultural identity and marginalized voices. The borders between character and spectator are shattered the first time The mace looks at the audience and talks directly to them. The physical bias between who gets to be the star of this play is the discourse of power that the audience’ discovers early on and challenges throughout the play. Cultural identity is a huge part of this play. Vigneshwar Paduar is character with a blurred racial identity. Due to that, he is called multiple different races and ethnicities during the play. Overall, this play embodies multiple principles of Postmodern Theatre.
In conclusion, the play, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, is a great example of Bertolt Brecht’s political writing style, and it is also a prime example of Postmodern Theatre. The play’s narrative tone challenges the audience to see the relation between what is happening in the play to how it is happening in real life. The play forces to challenge not only our country’s underlying racism as well as racism in all forms of