Ruined The Play Sparknotes

Lynn Nottage

Authors are advised regularly to "show not tell;" however in theater, one needs to show on the grounds that their gathering audience won't have the capacity to peruse script immediately afterward. Reading play that is meant to be seen is altogether another experience, in this case, the playwright must ‘tell’ for it to be seen by the reader. Dialect and punctuation must be utilized particularly, so the readers can translate and decipher motives or personalities of character in the rhythm of the dialect utilized. ‘“A play exists as a literary form until the first moment you sit down in a rehearsal room and allow a group of actors to read it. Then it becomes a dramatic form. During the rehearsal process, you make discoveries
The play concentrates all the more on the topic of women and how some of them are "ruined" on the grounds that they were assaulted and raped. Lynn Nottage concentrates on these ladies to give the play a more human and powerless feeling. Nottage uses rape as a weapon, and the women in brothels as casualties. In the play, war is the catalyst for many of the characters actions. For example, because of the war many of the soldiers acted out of their normal character and instead they acted like barbaric animals that raped many women causing the victims, the women, to become undesirable to their husbands and shunned by their villages. They were looked downward on and compelled to leave their family on account of the reality that they were assaulted and ruined. A number of the characters hold astonishing features to their personalities and actions despite and because of their rape. For example, Josephine, a prostitute working at Mama Nadi’s brothel, has an arrogant and superior attitude despite the lowly nature of her profession. In theory Josephine holds herself above others prostitutes, she throws taunts and unfriendly jest towards Sophie and Salima, her words filled with distain. Even though Josephine acknowledges that she is a whore she still finds a way to elevate herself far above the other whores, whether it is through past status, insults, or her relationship with Mr.Harari. Her stubborn strong-willed nature and yearning desire for status regardless of her position in life is her most enthralling highlight, pulling in the audience with the strength of her personality. As the story advances, Mama Nadi experiences a transformation, transforming from a modern cutting edge business woman, madam of the brothel, to a more motherly figure, ensuring the safety of young ladies under her as though they were her own children. Mama Nadi is part of a modern day slave trade. She buys girls