Ofrenda Play Analysis
Marcus Wilshusen
May 6, 2018
Professor Alvarez
Ofrenda was a great visual performance that dealt with so many individuals. Those individuals all being teenagers all helped the play to be a wonderful piece of theater. The play touches on immigrants that reside in the United States without legal permission. It talks about the increased arrests and deportations of individuals who have worked in this country or resided here for years just to be shipped off. To a place they no longer know.
In one part of the play, there is a university of Chicago student who talks about her identity and fitting in to the campus. Due to her classmates being wealthier and her classification possibly coming up at any point she fears the worst. She finds her true self by joining other undocumented individuals in the activist group that I cant recount at this point …show more content…
She also is shown to be seeing her father for the first time, ever since he immigrated to the U.S. years before, and at that time is seen as a stranger to her. He comes to meet her at O’Hare five hours after it lands. “He would be five hours late the rest of my life,” That truly stung for me because she never felt that her father would ever catch up to who she is and would always be behind who she is. The last example was a bit confusing for me but; it seems as if a sister of dead sibling, recounts the events that happened after her brother. Came out to the family as being trans. They seemed to have forced him to try to be who he was not by forcing him into conversion therapy. That heavy pressure of not being who he wanted to be. Along with being judged ultimately, lead to him committing
May 6, 2018
Professor Alvarez
Ofrenda was a great visual performance that dealt with so many individuals. Those individuals all being teenagers all helped the play to be a wonderful piece of theater. The play touches on immigrants that reside in the United States without legal permission. It talks about the increased arrests and deportations of individuals who have worked in this country or resided here for years just to be shipped off. To a place they no longer know.
In one part of the play, there is a university of Chicago student who talks about her identity and fitting in to the campus. Due to her classmates being wealthier and her classification possibly coming up at any point she fears the worst. She finds her true self by joining other undocumented individuals in the activist group that I cant recount at this point …show more content…
She also is shown to be seeing her father for the first time, ever since he immigrated to the U.S. years before, and at that time is seen as a stranger to her. He comes to meet her at O’Hare five hours after it lands. “He would be five hours late the rest of my life,” That truly stung for me because she never felt that her father would ever catch up to who she is and would always be behind who she is. The last example was a bit confusing for me but; it seems as if a sister of dead sibling, recounts the events that happened after her brother. Came out to the family as being trans. They seemed to have forced him to try to be who he was not by forcing him into conversion therapy. That heavy pressure of not being who he wanted to be. Along with being judged ultimately, lead to him committing