Play Report: Our Lady of 121st Street
Immediate Responses:
- Easy read
- Incredibly funny
- Characters are so unlike one another
- The relationships all linked together somehow
- Very disappointed by the way they found Sister Rose
- Loved the simple flow of the dialogue
- Had to re-read several things in order to keep the sequence straight due to the jumping around of the scenes and time.
Basic Conflict:
The basic conflict of the play is the unsettling fact that somebody has stolen the corpse of their beloved nun Sister Rose.
Major Events:
- Somebody stole Sister Rose’s corpse
- Balthazar tells Vic a story about a man who didn’t care that his son had died
- Rooftop goes to confession with Father Lux for the first time in 30 years.
- Inez is Rooftop’s ex wife
- Gail’s and Flip’s relationship is established. Gail is an actor.
- Flip denies his relationship with Gail in front of Inez
- The interrogation of Norca by Balthazar
- Edwin’s and Pinky’s relationship is established
- Edwin sends Pinky out for Yodels at 10:30 in the morning
- Marcia’s asthma attack. Edwin takes care of her. Marcia tries hooking up with Edwin.
- Norca and Inez speak in the bar for the first time since Norca slept with Rooftop, Inez’s ex husband. * Balthazar takes Rooftop out of his confession. * Pinky kisses Father Lux * Pinky returns from getting yodels over 12 hours later. * He admits to Edwin that he spent time with Norca * Marcia expresses her concerns that Edwin will turn into her alcoholic grandfather * Marcia wants to marry Edwin who doesn’t want to leave Pinky alone. * Flip kisses Gail in public * Balthazar confesses that he was the guy who decided to watch a game on television over going to his son’s death sight.
Major Theme: The major theme/lesson of the play is to always put somebody else before you. If you do than you will learn more about yourself in long run.
Environment: The environment of our scene is a bar and grill
- Easy read
- Incredibly funny
- Characters are so unlike one another
- The relationships all linked together somehow
- Very disappointed by the way they found Sister Rose
- Loved the simple flow of the dialogue
- Had to re-read several things in order to keep the sequence straight due to the jumping around of the scenes and time.
Basic Conflict:
The basic conflict of the play is the unsettling fact that somebody has stolen the corpse of their beloved nun Sister Rose.
Major Events:
- Somebody stole Sister Rose’s corpse
- Balthazar tells Vic a story about a man who didn’t care that his son had died
- Rooftop goes to confession with Father Lux for the first time in 30 years.
- Inez is Rooftop’s ex wife
- Gail’s and Flip’s relationship is established. Gail is an actor.
- Flip denies his relationship with Gail in front of Inez
- The interrogation of Norca by Balthazar
- Edwin’s and Pinky’s relationship is established
- Edwin sends Pinky out for Yodels at 10:30 in the morning
- Marcia’s asthma attack. Edwin takes care of her. Marcia tries hooking up with Edwin.
- Norca and Inez speak in the bar for the first time since Norca slept with Rooftop, Inez’s ex husband. * Balthazar takes Rooftop out of his confession. * Pinky kisses Father Lux * Pinky returns from getting yodels over 12 hours later. * He admits to Edwin that he spent time with Norca * Marcia expresses her concerns that Edwin will turn into her alcoholic grandfather * Marcia wants to marry Edwin who doesn’t want to leave Pinky alone. * Flip kisses Gail in public * Balthazar confesses that he was the guy who decided to watch a game on television over going to his son’s death sight.
Major Theme: The major theme/lesson of the play is to always put somebody else before you. If you do than you will learn more about yourself in long run.
Environment: The environment of our scene is a bar and grill