Stop Kiss Play Analysis
Stop Kiss In the play, Stop Kiss by Diana Son, the story is about friends turned lovers, Sara and Callie, who are assaulted for kissing. The play was produced off-Broadway in 1998 at The Public Theater in New York City. In the story, the main characters are Sara and Callie. Sara who moved to New York City from St. Louis to participate in a fellowship at an elementary school, Callie who works at traffic reporter in New York City. The story takes place in New York City’ West Village in the late night. Sara and Callie were walking and have their first kiss which make Sara got attacked by an angry bystander. After she gets attack, Sara gets into coma and become major of the play. People in the play tried to help Sarah starting with Peter who
is Sara’s ex-boyfriend from St. Louis, he tried to help her to get healthy again. Next, George who is Callie best friend but he cannot do much about it. Diana Son shows us a human emoting, reacting, and compassion in the play. Stop Kiss is showing us relationship are formed, explored, and even ended. I feel like this play is a fun and excited story which eases the believability factor. It also offers a different kind of acting challenge, because it is built on brief scenes that alternate between the growing friendship between two women and events that occur after one of them is attacked in a gay bashing. There are some funny and sweet moments as the two women get to know one another, and the story eventually raises questions of commitment that provide their own challenges. But the play takes on a more involving life in the scenes that take place after Sara is attacked. In the play, we can see how this play effect to our society today. The most part we can see is when two of woman are in love with each other which not most of us are agree with it. Also, we can see the crime that happen in our society are very dangerous. The depiction of the bitter aftermath of a random hate crime is disturbing, and very much still within our society today. My passion for this play stems from two close friends and the story behind the story. They unexpectedly fell in love and found Stop Kiss inspirational, relevant and a story that needed to be told. Diana Son is an Asian-American playwright, her most notable play being “Stop Kiss,” which was first performed in 1998. Some of her other plays include “BOY,” “Fishes,” “R.A.W.(‘Cause I’m a Woman)” and “Satellites.” She has received a number of awards for her plays, including the GLAAD Media Award for Best New York Production for “Stop Kiss,” the Berilla Kerr Award for playwriting, the NEA/TCG Residency grant at the Mark Taper Forum and a Brooks Atkinson Fellowship at the Royal National Theatre in London. Her first play, “Wrecked On Brecht” was published in 1987. Diana Son currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and their three sons. She has stated that she occasionally feels out of place in New York and is often asked where she is originally from. Son was born in Dover, Delaware in 1965, and was raised there until she moved to New York to study dramatic literature at New York University. She theorizes that there may be two reasons why so many people ask about her origins: either she sticks out as a non-native New Yorker or because she looks as though she came from an exotic land, though she claims that Dover, Delaware is anything but exotic. Whether Son is unsure of the basis of her Asian heritage or is simply choosing not to share is left ambiguous.
is Sara’s ex-boyfriend from St. Louis, he tried to help her to get healthy again. Next, George who is Callie best friend but he cannot do much about it. Diana Son shows us a human emoting, reacting, and compassion in the play. Stop Kiss is showing us relationship are formed, explored, and even ended. I feel like this play is a fun and excited story which eases the believability factor. It also offers a different kind of acting challenge, because it is built on brief scenes that alternate between the growing friendship between two women and events that occur after one of them is attacked in a gay bashing. There are some funny and sweet moments as the two women get to know one another, and the story eventually raises questions of commitment that provide their own challenges. But the play takes on a more involving life in the scenes that take place after Sara is attacked. In the play, we can see how this play effect to our society today. The most part we can see is when two of woman are in love with each other which not most of us are agree with it. Also, we can see the crime that happen in our society are very dangerous. The depiction of the bitter aftermath of a random hate crime is disturbing, and very much still within our society today. My passion for this play stems from two close friends and the story behind the story. They unexpectedly fell in love and found Stop Kiss inspirational, relevant and a story that needed to be told. Diana Son is an Asian-American playwright, her most notable play being “Stop Kiss,” which was first performed in 1998. Some of her other plays include “BOY,” “Fishes,” “R.A.W.(‘Cause I’m a Woman)” and “Satellites.” She has received a number of awards for her plays, including the GLAAD Media Award for Best New York Production for “Stop Kiss,” the Berilla Kerr Award for playwriting, the NEA/TCG Residency grant at the Mark Taper Forum and a Brooks Atkinson Fellowship at the Royal National Theatre in London. Her first play, “Wrecked On Brecht” was published in 1987. Diana Son currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and their three sons. She has stated that she occasionally feels out of place in New York and is often asked where she is originally from. Son was born in Dover, Delaware in 1965, and was raised there until she moved to New York to study dramatic literature at New York University. She theorizes that there may be two reasons why so many people ask about her origins: either she sticks out as a non-native New Yorker or because she looks as though she came from an exotic land, though she claims that Dover, Delaware is anything but exotic. Whether Son is unsure of the basis of her Asian heritage or is simply choosing not to share is left ambiguous.