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Am I a little to harsh???????????????????????????????????????
Some of the people at my school put on a play. It is my job to write a review for it in the school newspaper. Here is my review:
Why do the people at West (my school) not understand the simple fact that there is a difference between making something funny and THE THREE STOOGES?
The acting was wooden, the jokes were cheesy, it overall didn't make any sense whatsoever. The only funny parts were when the show was trying to be serious. Which is fine. For a school play. Not something you are TAKING MY MONEY FOR!
(Yes, the play did require a ticket to get in).
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- 9 years agoFavorite Answer
I can't know for sure because I didn't see the play. However, I would say, make your review a little broader. Explain a little bit about the plot of the play. Give examples of specific parts that were particularly bad. As it is, you review sounds like a rant. I believe it would have more credibility if you were a bit less emotional while making your point.
- JonathanLv 79 years ago
No, you're not being a little too harsh. You're being MUCH too harsh, completely unfair, and giving your readers a meaningless review of the show.
The Three Stooges did a particular style of old burlesque slapstick. It's a perfectly valid style of comedy and some people find it hilariously funny. Others, of course, don't - apparently including you. Your opening statement, that the Three Stooges being inherently not funny is a fact, is simply false and invalidates the rest of the review.
A reviewer's job is not to decide what show they wish the performers had produced, but to critique how good a job they did with the show they actually DID produce.
Now, having said that... you could open by pointing out that the Three Stooges is a comedy classic of a bygone era... that it doesn't have universal appeal... and that the actors at your school had their work cut out for them to try and make this material funny and appealing for a modern audience. And from the sound of things, they may well not have been up to that challenge. I'm not saying you have to write a glowing review if the performance was really badly done. But you need to describe the performance in more detail to give the reader a sense of what it was actually like. From what you wrote, all we know is that YOU didn't like it, but maybe that's just telling us about you. Doesn't tell me anything about the performance itself, maybe if I'm a three stooges fan I would have loved it.
Finally, the shot about the show costing money is completely irrelevant and unfair. It's in extremely bad taste on your part even to mention it. It would be a lovely world to live in if high school drama clubs were swimming in bathtubs of money provided them by the local school board. But they're not, and props, costumes, electricity for lights, the janitor who unlocks the building and sweeps up afterward - all that costs money. If people didn't pay for tickets there would be no school drama club and your school's students would lose important opportunities to learn about the arts. I'm sure the actors were not getting paid, so you can't b***h about them as though they were trained professionals making money at this.
- Anonymous9 years ago
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