Performance Name: A Few Good Men

Location: Riverwalk Theatre

Date/time: Thursday, October 29, 2009 – 7:00 p.m.

Performance Type: Dramatic Play

Websites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Few_Good_Men_(play)

Thoughts: What is right – what is wrong?  (Side thought – hopefully all my thoughts won’t turn into an endless list of questions, but plays often get me thinking without finding an answer) Who gets to determine what is right and wrong?  If you are brought up and conditioned to thinking one way, and that way is the wrong way, are you at fault? Or because you believe it is the right way – is it really the right way?  Who gets to decide.  Even after they decide – are they right? If you do something for good intentions – does that affect if the action is right or wrong? It seems that the quest of being human is to determine these answers.

I often feel this way when I’m trying to make a decision – I feel as though I need to make the correct decision.  Then it is quite disconcerting when I realize there is no “correct” decision – only what is the best I can make with the information I have and what I know. Being a perfectionist this is hard for me to handle sometimes – I keep thinking someone knows the correct answer and why don’t they just tell me. Part of me thinks I’m still a child where I would turn to the grown-ups for the answers – but now I’m now one of those grown-ups and I realize that they really don’t have all the answers.

I guess in the end we will all struggle with this and we just have to do our best to do what we believe in our hearts to be right and be as “good” as possible.

Pet Peeve of the Evening: Ok – I’ve already used this one, but then again a pet peeve is something that always bothers you.  People talking during the show.  Yes, they do whisper, but I can hear them and I find it draws me out of the play that the actors and actresses work hard to draw me into.

Repeat Rating: On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being a cruise in the Caribbean in the summer and 10 being a cruise in Alaska in the winter, the chance I’d see this performance again is a 8. (For those of you who don’t know me, 1 is bad and 10 is good)